behind the scenes of phantom thread (paul thomas anderson, 2017)
aug 17 2022
We live in an age of regrettably half-assed insults. I would have done great at like 1654 where you could walk up to someone you don't like and just say shit like "how cruel can nature be, that now age denies you wisdom, as youth once forbade you beauty" and get stabbed.
Mary Oliver, from “Starlings in Winter”, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
It’s almost as if nobody wants to admit that they might not be prepared to do the work it takes to love somebody. And it can be laborious. To be intimate with someone who is flawed (which is the standard) requires us to expose our own flaws. We don’t talk about the heavy responsibility of that. We don’t talk about how we’re too lazy or too cowardly sometimes. We instead accuse love of being elusive. It isn’t. It is omnipresent. It asks us to be better people. And sometimes we flat out refuse.
@heavensghost / there are so many ghosts at my spot - karmin verdi / no choir - florence + the machine / a softer world / ? / Holly Warburton/ @teashoesandhair / ? / Faces in the Crowd - Luiselli (tr. MacSweeney)
Poetry, art, occasional Harringrove 3 - all of my fandoms haunt me - she/her - bi - libra - 19 - 💚💙
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