#schematism

DAN: (a mix of stuff he’s mentioned liking and stuff he owns)

books- paper towns by john green, the harry potter series, and the hippos were boiled in their tanks by jack kerouac and william s. burroughs, the da vinci code by dan brown, freeglader (#7 in the edge chronicles) by chris riddell and paul stewart, vox (also from the edge chronicles), a brief history of time by stephen hawking, angels and demons by dan brown, othello by william shakespeare, ghosts of ascalon by jeff grubb and matt forbeck, a streetcar named desire and other plays by tennessee williams, to kill a mockingbird by harper lee, a song of fire and ice by george r. r. martin, the millennium series (the girl with the dragan tattoo) 

books on the shelf in the background where dan used to do his liveshows (from the ‘dan (middle) shelf’: the lovely bones by alice sebold, the great pyramid decoded by peter lemesurie (conspiracy theory books lmaooo), the politics book by sam atkinson et al;, the ascension mysteries by david wilcock (anothEr conspiracy theory book, i believe this was one given to him by his ‘crazy uncle’), living energies: an exposition of concepts related to the theories of viktor schauberger" by callum Coats 

he also owns a few new-age selfhelp books: the power of now: a guide to spiritual enlightenment by eckhart tolle, a new earth: create a better lifeby eckhart tolle, the daemon by anthony peake

movies: akira, interstellar, broke back mountain, life of pi, final fantasy vii: advent children, legally blonde, moulin rouge, insidious, the girl with the dragon tattoo, black swan, back to the future, cloverfield, donnie darko, mad max fury road, kill your darlings, inside out, argo, 28 days later, super 8, the conjuring, most tarantino films, howls moving castle whiplash, arrival, 

PHIL: (mix of stuff he likes and stuff he owns) 

books- bazaar of bad dreams, short story collection by stephen king, seconds, by bryan o'malley, the death cure and the kill order from the maze trial series by james dashner, the book of magic by david ovason, unlikely friendships, spirited away, by jennifer holland, terrible old games you’ve probably never heard of by ashens, seconds by brian lee o’malley, and he’s also recc’d a lot of stephen king books

movies: cube, 28 weeks later, the science of sleep, elephant, kill bill, the hateful eight, feast, the fountain, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, little miss sunshine, my neighbour toroto, the ring, ex machina, moonrise kingdom, scot pilgram vs the world, run lola run (lmao i also rec this movie tbh), nowhere, nightcrawler, the avengers, rise of the planet of apes, sunshine, sky high, the saw series, silent hill (but only the first one), the mist, vanilla sky, requiem for a dream, howls moving castle, deadpool, gravity, the maze runner, 21 jump street, geralds game,  basically all of the marvel movies

TV shows- im gonna say these fall under a ‘both’ category bc they both tend to watch the same tv shows together: x-files, great british bake-off, 24, the mighty boosh, dexter, breaking bad, take me out, shameless- uk, true blood, buffy, adventure times, lost, the walking dead, glee, homeland, doctor who, angel, friends, true detective, game of thrones, sherlock, fringe, heroes, modern family, true blood, big brother- uk, parks and recs, the office, queer eye, friends, bates motel, stranger things, river dale, the santa clarita diet, the oa, black mirror, bojack horseman, house of cards, the haunting of hill house, 

disturbing fact: the smell is so similar to that of human flesh burning that ppl whove been in traumatic situations involving ppl being burned are known to be triggered by it.

I hadn’t… it would depended on how far back they actually go and if they stick to that timeline. Would we see Alison have to rumor her husband? What are the implications of that? Is what she does/did the same as the love potion Merope used to get Tom Riddle Sr. to fall “in love” with her? 

Does Allison’s power wain, so does she have to top up her rumors? Does that matter? If she rumored her husband into their relationship, meaning that he didn’t have a choice but to love her, does mean that any sort of physical relationship they have is coerced as well? Allison wanted to be loved, and didn’t care what that would cost.

I'd read 'The Luminaries,' and been disappointed by what I identified as its schematism: characters are derived from astrological premises rather than organically occurring humans. Then I heard about a text by a writer I venerated, who'd given a particular character a particular physical condition in order to reflect something he perceived in his generation. And I wanted to be disappointed by that too, because I wanted what these other writers had done to be wrong so that I could do something different that was right.