#stephen bloom

The way that Stephen loves Bloom seems kind of crazy and intimidating and a little weird to us as an audience. He's so obsessive and intense and focused on Bloom. Stephen really doesn't think about himself at all in the movie, and you can tell. I mean, there's all this subtextual stuff about Stephen being in a relationship with Bang Bang and we can assume that Stephen probably has other things in his life, other friends, but really his whole life is about Stephen.

And that seems weird until you realize that Stephen (and to a less explicit sense, Bang Bang), already knows exactly who he is and how loved he is. Stephen is capable of focusing all of his time and energy and life on helping his brother because he doesn't need to justify himself. He is loved, and so he can pour that love out. In other words, Stephen is the most secure human being in the history of the planet, and that's why he's able to devote his life to his brother.

I'm not, for the record, saying that I can or do love anything like the way that Stephen loves Bloom. I would very much like to, but the fact of the matter is that I am nowhere near secure enough for that. I am not sure enough of who I am and how loved I am to be able to put it aside and love others with that fullness and intensity. But I want to. I really really really want to.

Tears of Mermaids: the Secret Story of Pearls by Stephen G. Bloom

One of the Downtown Kirkwood Book Tour Titles. This title is posted at Brando! 

For Tears of Mermaids, Stephen G. Bloom traveled 30,000 miles to trace a single pearl - from the moment a diver off the coast of Australia scoops from the ocean floor an oyster containing a single luminescent pearl to the instant a woman on the other side of the world fastens the clasp of a strand containing the same orb. Bloom chronicles the never-before-told saga of the global pearl trade by gaining access to clandestine outposts in Japan, China, the Philippines, French Polynesia and Australia. Bloom infiltrates high-tech pearl farms and processing facilities guarded by gun-toting sentries, and insinuates himself into the lives of powerful international pearl lords. Bloom farms for pearls in rural China, goes behind scenes at million-dollar auctions in Hong Kong, trails pearl brokers and Internet entrepreneurs in Asia, hires himself out as a deckhand on an Australian pearling vessel, and goes backstage at Christie's for a fast and furious auction of the most expensive pearl ever sold. Teeming with rogue humor and uncanny intelligence, Tears of Mermaids weaves a nonstop detective story of the world's most enduring gem.

From Publisher’s Weekly

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