This Side of Reality

A Single Man (2009) dir. Tom Ford

Ellen Spangberg

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● being constantly afraid of prolapse ● your back always being sore from the strain ● also sore because, seriously, why has no one invented an ergonomic toilet? ● having to plan trips around your condition ● can’t go anywhere if there’s no toilet ● or if the toilets are too far apart ● can’t drive anywhere that’s more than an hour away, because you will need to go before then ● having to monitor your diet like a hawk ● like seriously, no dairy, nothing too spicy, not too much fibre, but also enough fibre ● having to cancel plans on bad days because you literally need to shit every 20 minutes ● or you haven’t shit in 4 days and you can feel your body trying to implode ● not being able to hold a job because you need a half-hour break every hour ● seeing your friends slowly drift away because you’re no fun and can’t do or go anywhere ● feeling yourself retract further away from society because it’s just too difficult to leave the house ● either lose 5 kilos in2 days or gain 10 kilos in 2 hours ● losing nearly all the strength in your legs because, again, toilets aren’t ergonomic and your always straining

Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides. (via theburnthatkeepseverything)

Christopher Plummer: the OG DILF