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nobeerreviews · 4 months

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I sat in the silence of that night, that infinite hostility to man, to permanence, to love, remembering her, remembering her.

-- John Fowles

#lake zurich #remembering #her #silence #night photography #reflections #moonlight #john fowles #quote #zurich #switzerland

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thoughtkick · 11 months

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If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.

John Fowles

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derangedrhythms · 1 year

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[…] the one thing that must never come between two people who have offered each other love is a lie.

John Fowles, from ‘The Magus’

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oldshrewsburyian · 8 months

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what classic romances do you think measure up to harriet and peter in gaudy night? i’m really craving more satisfying classic romance

Well, kind inquirer, I have a confession. I had read the Wimsey novels multiple times by the age of 16. Over the past 2+ decades, Peter and Harriet have taught me a lot of things, even if I have learned them more slowly and painfully than I would like (Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face...); even if I feel as though I have not salvaged as much as I could from life's various shipwrecks. The point is: no one measures up, not for me. My dear, if you have let me come as far as your work and your life... That said, I can offer some suggestions, presuming that you mean by "classic romance" romance that happens outside the genre parameters of romance novels. I'll start with the most classic and work my way forwards. [Under the cut for length!]

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (for obvious reasons, I imagine. Perhaps the thing I love most in romance is two intense weirdos deciding to love each other intensely and weirdly.)

Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare (I know I said I'd work my way forward, but then I said 'intense weirdos' and remembered my beloved Benedick and Beatrice. Beatrice, an unmarried woman in her uncle's household, interrupts men's political conversation to demand to know whether he's alive because she can't stand not knowing for a minute longer... and that's her opening line! and then they roast each other for 2 hours! I love them so much!)

Persuasion, Jane Austen (Anne is, I would argue, quietly intense, while Frederick is obviously so; he's also weird enough for both of them (affectionate.) I adore them, I support them, I wish them many decades of shocking society with how they look at each other across rooms. And dinner tables. And pianos. And dancing squares.)

Artists in Crime/Death in a White Tie, Ngaio Marsh (this is the Alleyn/Troy duology the way that Strong Poison/Have His Carcase/Gaudy Night is the Peter/Harriet trilogy. I adore Troy, an anxious and compassionate artist with gnc tendencies, and Alleyn fascinates me. Intense weirdos again. Alleyn successfully pretends to be normal most of the time, with everyone except about 3 people. Occasionally he decides to stop, or just does because he's very tired and fed up, and then everyone in the room gets very freaked out very quickly. I love him.)

The Case of William Smith, Patricia Wentworth (bonus detective round! Wentworth is not in the Sayers-Marsh class, and this novel has some tropes I don't like, but I love the gentleness of the central romance so much that I still reread it.)

Possession, A.S. Byatt (Victorian poets, the scholars who study them, the life of the mind and the life of the heart. This is absolutely a novel with Gaudy Night in its lineage.)

The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles (I hesitated before adding this to the list, but it's a novel of ideas that is also about love and sex and identity and Englishness with a very vivid setting, so it might fit the bill?)

The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje ('I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant, who imagines or remembers a meeting when the other had passed by innocently...')

Charlotte Gray, Sebastian Faulks (Birdsong is the greater novel, but this one might be the one I prefer. I love Charlotte and her quest to find herself that is also a journey toward love! and vocation! and the images for the lovers in this book are indelible)

Bonus round of books I looked at on my shelf and decided were about so many things that the romance might not be central enough: The Children's Book, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Remains of the Day, The Portrait of a Lady, War and Peace, Brideshead Revisited.

Bonus bonus round, not a book: Random Harvest. Yes it is a book, but in the novel, the romance which truly is emotionally anchoring (I would argue) is much more peripheral than it is in the film, which was, like the Wimsey novels, formative for me. Also, look at them:

I have not been normal about the way he looks at her for *checks notes* 25 years. And I hope you find some things to enjoy here!

#long post #book recommendations #romance #two fiddlers both musicians #charlotte brontë #jane austen #sebastian faulks #ngaio marsh #a.s. byatt #john fowles #michael ondaatje #patricia wentworth #random harvest

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basicallyanotherwitchesthing · 1 year

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John Fowles - The Magus - Pan - 1971 (cover painting by John Adams: girl from James Wedge photo)

#witches #magi #occult #vintage #the magus #pan books #john fowles #john adams #james wedge #top gear #king's road #1971 #candles

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thelastrenaissance · 27 days

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John Fowles (31 March 1926) was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism.

“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.”

John Fowles, The Magus

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cinematic-literature · 10 days

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Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) by Marielle Heller

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The Russia House (1989) by John Le Carré

Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (1977), edited by Samuel M. Steward

The Prince of Tides (1986) by Pat Conroy

The Magus (1965) by John Fowles

Possession (1990) by Antonia Susan Byatt

#can you ever forgive me #marielle heller #books in movies #american literature #english literature #the magus #john fowles #the russia house #john le carre #the prince of tides #possession #antonia susan byatt #pat conroy #dear sammy #alice b toklas #gertrude stein #brandon scott jones

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stay-close · 8 months

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If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.

John Fowles

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surqrised · 7 months

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If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.

John Fowles

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katchwreck · 2 months

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“The lonelier the place, the better it pleased me: its silence, its aura, its peculiar conformation, its enclosedness.”

— John Fowles

#peace quotes #quote #tranquility #peace of mind #singularity #john fowles

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perfectquote · 1 year

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If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.

John Fowles

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lumencoelisanctarosa · 3 months

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"The Black Phone" 2021 / "The Collector" 1965

Small gif allusions!

#tbp fandom #tbp finney #albert shaw #ethan hawke #the collector #john fowles #the black phone #scott derrickson #terence stamp #horror movies #horror #slashers #if villain bad why hot #stockholm syndrome #the grabber #omg omg omg

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james-joyces-right-eyeball · 4 months

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Favorite Books I Read in 2023

Not including rereads and in no particular order, here are the books I loved the most this year.

Titles & Authors, from top left to bottom:

Fluids by May Leitz

Nevada by Imogen Binnie

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

Perfume: Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

Valencia by Michelle Tea

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov

Summer by Edith Wharton

"The Echo & the Nemesis", "Life is No Abyss", "The Interior Castle", "Bad Characters", and "In the Zoo" by Jean Stafford

Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill

Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

Crash by J.G. Ballard

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde

Erasure by Percival Everett

Persuasion by Jane Austen

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Ghosts of my Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology, & Lost Futures by Mark Fisher

Girl Flesh by May Leitz

Here's to a new year, full of great reading!

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fear-is-truth · 10 months

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The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

– John Fowles

#quotes #literary quotes #aesthetic #john fowles

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litandlifequotes · 5 months

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I am infinitely strange to myself.

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

#john fowles #classic #novel #book #book quote #quote #words #reading #fiction

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purplekissinger · 5 months

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Yanderes that are boring. They are so pathetic. Their interests are trash tier, they don't read much, their taste in music is disgusting. They can't carry on an engaging conversation or any kind of conversation at all. This is unpleasant, because there is no one else to talk to in this basement. Kinda reminds me of Fowles' 'The Collector' when the heroine lashed out at her captor for being basic despite the literal danger to her life.

#yandere x reader #yandere oc #yandere prompts #yandere imagines #tw yandere #john fowles #the collector

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