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Bluebeard's Castle
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The Love Witch: screenplay
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Viva: screenplay
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Post Factum Introduction to Bluebeard's Castle
I was inspired to write this post factum introduction to Bluebeard's Castle after reading the one penned by Vladimir Nabokov's for his novel Bend Sinister. On a first read that clever tragedy had seemed like an opaque and arcane puzzle, but on a second read I was seized by how the introduction clarified points that had been widely misunderstood by readers, and struck by how the novel s
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"‘When you are scared, but you do it anyway, that's brave.’
There are few villains that still frighten me to this day quite like the button-eyed Other Mother of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. While, sure, this is a book for younger readers, but Coraline is a " Read more of this review » |
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"The most compelling aspect of the book was it's ability to draw me into Judith's mindset. Throughout the book, Judith's inner monologue felt like disappearing into a foggy haze where the truth is subjective. You know he is Bluebeard and can see an ob"
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"Like the author's Long Live the Post Horn!, this novel upended me. Is there something achingly direct about the Norwegian language itself, even when translated into English, that makes this author's prose seem simultaneously simple and deeply beautif"
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Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director:
"Actually kind of shook me up. I mean, I’ve read a hundred biographies of movie directors, but this is the first in which, page after page, all I could think was, “Oh my god, what a fuck-up!”
To put it kindly, while cine-intellectuals of the fifties, " Read more of this review » |
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Anna Biller
is on page 140 of 685 of The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov: INCREDIBLE so far!!!
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“She stared into the flames, resigning herself to her fate. She now knew that she had fallen victim to a sociopath, and yet she didn’t care. No man is perfect; all men have their flaws, and you have to accept the bad with the good. Some men expect you to mother them, or make you into their maid. Others ignore you, or lecture you, or misunderstand everything you say, or are fussy about trivial things. A bad man can kill you with a knife, but a good man can kill you by boring you to death!”
― Bluebeard's Castle
― Bluebeard's Castle
“He hoisted her up in his strong arms, and she opened her eyes and looked up at him adoringly. She thought that the image must have carried a certain eerie romantic charm, like Dracula carrying off his victim.”
― Bluebeard's Castle
― Bluebeard's Castle
“For the first time in her life she wanted to be merged with another, to be carried away by voluptuousness, to be inside of the sublime. She looked into his eyes, and his irises were blank projection screens into which she poured all of her longing.”
― Bluebeard's Castle
― Bluebeard's Castle
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“She stared into the flames, resigning herself to her fate. She now knew that she had fallen victim to a sociopath, and yet she didn’t care. No man is perfect; all men have their flaws, and you have to accept the bad with the good. Some men expect you to mother them, or make you into their maid. Others ignore you, or lecture you, or misunderstand everything you say, or are fussy about trivial things. A bad man can kill you with a knife, but a good man can kill you by boring you to death!”
― Bluebeard's Castle
― Bluebeard's Castle
“For the first time in her life she wanted to be merged with another, to be carried away by voluptuousness, to be inside of the sublime. She looked into his eyes, and his irises were blank projection screens into which she poured all of her longing.”
― Bluebeard's Castle
― Bluebeard's Castle
“He hoisted her up in his strong arms, and she opened her eyes and looked up at him adoringly. She thought that the image must have carried a certain eerie romantic charm, like Dracula carrying off his victim.”
― Bluebeard's Castle
― Bluebeard's Castle
“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. ”
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“One may cover over secret actions, but to be silent on what all the world knows, and things which have had effects which are public and of so much consequence is an inexcusable defect.”
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