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pathetic-gamer · 2 months

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Pentiment's Complete Bibliography, with links to some hard-to-find items:

I've seen some people post screenshots of the game's bibliography, but I hadn't found a plain text version (which would be much easier to work from), so I put together a complete typed version - citation style irregularities included lol. I checked through the full list and found that only four of the forty sources can't be found easily through a search engine. One has no English translation and I'm not even close to fluent enough in German to be able to actually translate an academic article, so I can't help there. For the other three (a museum exhibit book, a master's thesis, and portions of a primary source that has not been entirely translated into English), I tracked down links to them, which are included with their entries on the list.

If you want to read one of the journal articles but can't access it due to paywalls, try out 12ft.io or the unpaywall browser extension (works on Firefox and most chromium browsers). If there's something you have interest in reading but can't track down, let me know, and I can try to help! I'm pretty good at finding things lmao

Okay, happy reading, love you bye

Beach, Alison I. Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria. Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2004.

Berger, Jutta Maria. Die Geschichterder Gastfreundschaft im hochmittel alterlichen Monchtum: die Cistercienser. Akademie Verlag GmbH, 1999. [No translation found.]

Blickle, Peter. The Revolution of 1525. Translated by Thomas A. Brady, Jr. and H.C. Erik Midelfort. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Brady, Thomas A., Jr. “Imperial Destinies: A New Biography of the Emperor Maximilian I.” The Journal of Modern History, vol 62, no. 2., 1990. pp.298-314.

Brandl, Rainer. “Art or Craft: Art and the Artist in Medieval Nuremberg.” Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg 1300-1550. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. [LINK]

Byars, Jana L., “Prostitutes and Prostitution in Late Medieval Bercelona.” Masters Theses. Western Michigan University, 1997. [LINK]

Cashion, Debra Taylor. “The Art of Nikolaus Glockendon: Imitation and Originality in the Art of Renaissance Germany.” Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, vol 2, no. 1-2, 2010.

de Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Phaidon Press Limited, 1986.

Eco, Umberto. The Name of the Rose. Translated by William Weaver. Mariner Books, 2014.

Eco, Umberto. Baudolino. Translated by William Weaver. Mariner Books, 2003.

Fournier, Jacques. “The Inquisition Records of Jacques Fournier.” Translated by Nancy P. Stork. Jan Jose Univeristy, 2020. [LINK]

Geary, Patrick. “Humiliation of Saints.” In Saints and their cults: studies in religious sociology, folklore, and history. Edited by Stephen Wilson. Cambridge University Press, 1985. pp. 123-140

Harrington, Joel F. The Faithrul Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.

Hertzka, Gottfired and Wighard Strehlow. Grosse Hildegard-Apotheke. Christiana-Verlag, 2017.

Hildegard von Bingen. Physica. Edited by Reiner Hildebrandt and Thomas Gloning. De Gruyter, 2010.

Julian of Norwich. Revelations of Divine Love. Translated by Barry Windeatt. Oxford Univeristy Press, 2015.

Karras, Ruth Mazo. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. Routledge, 2017.

Kerr, Julie. Monastic Hospitality: The Benedictines in England, c.1070-c.1250. Boudell Press, 2007.

Kieckhefer, Richard. Forbidden rites: a necromancer’s manual of the fifteenth century. Sutton, 1997.

Kuemin, Beat and B. Ann Tlusty, The World of the Tavern: Public Houses in Early Modern Europe. Routledge, 2017.

Ilner, Thomas, et al. The Economy of Duerrnberg-Bei-Hallein: An Iron Age Salt-mining Center in the Austrian Alps. The Antiquaries Journal, vol 83, 2003. pp. 123-194

Lang, Benedek. Unlocked Books: Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008

Lindeman, Mary. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Lowe, Kate. “’Representing’ Africa: Ambassadors and Princes from Christian Africa to Renaissance Italy and Portugal, 1402-1608.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Sixth Series, vol 17, 2007. pp. 101-128

Meyers, David. “Ritual, Confession, and Religion in Sixteenth-Century Germany.” Archiv fuer Reformationsgenshichte, vol. 89, 1998. pp. 125-143.

Murat, Zuleika. “Wall paintings through the ages: the medieval period (Italy, twelfth to fifteenth century).” Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, vol 23, no. 191. Springer, October 2021. pp. 1-27.

Overty, Joanne Filippone. “The Cost of Doing Scribal Business: Prices of Manuscript Books in England, 1300-1483.” Book History 11, 2008. pp. 1-32.

Page, Sophie. Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occullt Approaches to the Medieval Universe. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013.

Park, Katharine. “The Criminal and the Saintly Body: Autopsy and Dissectionin Renaissance Italy.” Renaissance Quarterly, vol 47, no. 1, Spring 1994. pp. 1-33.

Rebel, Hermann. Peasant Classes: The Bureaucratization of Property and Family Relations under Early Habsburg Absolutism, 1511-1636. Princeton University Press, 1983.

Rublack, Ulinka. “Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Female Body in Early Modern Germany.” Past & Present,vol. 150, no. 1, February 1996.

Salvador, Matteo. “The Ethiopian Age of Exploration: Prester John’s Discovery of Europe, 1306-1458.” Journal of World History, vol. 21, no. 4, 2011. pp.593-627.

Sangster, Alan. “The Earliest Known Treatise on Double Entry Bookkeeping by Marino de Raphaeli.” The Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 42, no. 2, 2015. pp. 1-33.

Throop, Priscilla. Hildegarde von Bingen’s Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing. Healing Arts Press, 1998.

Usher, Abbott Payson. “The Origins of Banking: The Brimitive Bank of Deposit, 1200-1600.” The Economic History Review, vol. 4, no. 4. 1934. pp.399-428.

Waldman, Louis A. “Commissioning Art in Florence for Matthias Corvinus: The Painter and Agent Alexander Formoser and his Sons, Jacopo and Raffaello del Tedesco.” Italy and Hungary: Humanism and Art in the Early Renaissance. Edited by Peter Farbaky and Louis A. Waldman, Villa I Tatti, 2011. pp.427-501.

Wendt, Ulrich. Kultur and Jagd: ein Birschgang durch die Geschichte. G. Reimer, 1907.

Whelan, Mark. “Taxes, Wagenburgs and a Nightingale: The Imperial Abbey of Ellwangen and the Hussite Wars, 1427-1435.” The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 72, no. 4, 2021, pp.751-777.

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Yardeni, Ada. The Book of Hebrew Script: History, Palaeography, Script Styles, Calligraphy & Design. Tyndale House Publishers, 2010.

#pentiment #early modern history

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newyorkthegoldenage · 2 months

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Lt. Commander Richard Byrd testing the glasses he planned to use during his flight over the North Pole. He sailed from New York on the S.S. Chantier on April 1, 1926. With him is Dr. Daniel O'Brien of John Hopkins University, who acted as a medical aid on the expedition. When Byrd returned, he became a national hero.

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1920s #Richard Byrd #polar exploration #polar expedition #North Pole #Arctic Circle #North Pole flight #Arctic flight #April 1 #1 April

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incorrect-koh-posts · 1 month

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"[...] narrative interest in Kingdom of Heaven focuses not on the outcome of the conflict between the Crusader Kingdom and Saladin but on the way it was fought, on means rather than ends, performance rather than goals. In the end, how the hero performs is more important than the fact that he lost the battle and surrendered the city. [...]

"Scott perhaps best encapsulates the anxieties that surround hard-bodied masculinity and the mourning for its loss in his uncanny image of Baldwin, the leper king of Jerusalem, whose death precipitates the destruction of the Crusader Kingdom. Rather than focusing the audience's attention on the ravages of the disease of leprosy (at least until after his death), Scott depicts him in a funereal image of a male body swathed in white robes and veils, his face hidden by a beautiful but lifeless silver mask. Baldwin is beautiful but inanimate on the outside - a hard-bodied shell - living but hideous on the inside. His voice detached from his body, Baldwin becomes a ghostly acousmatic, despite his physical presence onscreen. His voice seems to issue from an inanimate shell, cut off from its origin in a human body. He is his own - and his kingdom's - funeral effigy. In this figure the hard-bodied masculinity of the crusaders in Kingdom of Heaven is exposed as a performance, a disguise that hides the rottenness within the kingdom beneath its beautiful but dead veneer. The image allows not only the crusaders but Scott's audience to mourn lost glories."

- Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman, Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, pp. 231f.

#kingdom of heaven 2005 #baldwin iv #i came across this while doing research for my thesis #the authors have written a lot on the reception and remediation of arthurian legend #and then i saw that they had a book on the middle ages on film #there's so little academic material on koh i'm always surprised when i come across one in the wild #something something the king's two bodies #one day i might write up that post on portrayals of masculinity in koh that i've been wanting to do for ages

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viasplat · 1 year

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I typed up the Pentiment bibliography for my own use and thought I’d share it here too. In case anyone else is fixated enough on this game to embark on some light extra-curricular reading

I haven’t searched for every one of these books but a fair few can be found via one of the following: JSTOR / archive.org / pdfdrive.com / libgen + libgen.rocks; or respective websites for the journal articles.

List below the cut!

Beach, Alison I, Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria. Cambridge University Press, 2004

Berger, Jutta Maria. Die Geschichte der Gastfreundschaft im hochmittelalterlichen Mönchtum die Cistercienser. Akademie Verlag GmbH, 1999

Blickle, Peter. The Revolution of 1525. Translated by Thomas A. Brady, Jr. and H.C. Erik Midelfort. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985

Brady, Thomas A., Jr. “Imperial Destinies: A New Biography of the Emperor Maximilian I.” The Journal of Modern History, vol.62, no.2, 1990. pp. 298-314

Brandl, Rainer. “Art or Craft? Art and the Artist in Medieval Nuremberg.” Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg 1300-2550. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986

Byars, Jana L., “Prostitutes and Prostitution in Late Medieval Barcelona.” Masters Theses. Western Michigan University, 1997

Cashion, Debra Taylor. “The Art of Nikolaus Glockendon: Imitation and Originality in the Art of Renaissance Germany.” Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, vol.2, no.1-2, 2010

de Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Phaidon Press Limited, 1986

Eco, Umberto. The Name of the Rose. Translated by William Weaver. Mariner Books, 2014

Eco, Umberto. Baudolino. Translated by William Weave. Boston, Mariner Books, 2003

Fournier, Jacques. “The Inquisition Records of Jacques Fournier.” Translated by Nancy P. Stork, San Jose University, 2020

Geary, Patrick. “Humiliation of Saints.” In Saints and their cults: studies in religious sociology, folklore, and history. Edited by Stephen Wilson. Cambridge University Press, 1985. pp. 123-140

Harrington, Joel F. The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013

Hertzka, Gottfied and Wighard Strehlow. Große Hildegard-Apotheke. Christiana-Verlag, 2017

Hildegard von Bingen. Physica. Edited by Reiner Hildebrandt and Thomas Gloning. De Gruyter, 2010

Julian of Norwich. Revelations of Divine Love. Translated by Barry Windeatt. Oxford University Press, 2015

Karras, Ruth Mazo. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. Routledge, 2017

Kerr, Julie. Monastic Hospitality: The Benedictines in England, c.1070-c.1250. Boydell Press, 2007

Kieckhefer, Richard. Forbidden rites: a necromancer's manual of the fifteenth century. Sutton, 1997

Kümin, Beat and B. Ann Tlusty. The World of the Tavern: Public Houses in Early Modern Europe. Routledge, 2017

Ilner, Thomas, et al. The Economy of Dürnberg-Bei-Hallein: an Iron Age Salt-mining Centre in the Austrian Alps. The Antiquaries Journal, vol. 83, 2003. pp. 123-194

Làng, Benedek. Unlocked Books: Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008

Lindeman, Mary. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2010

Lowe, Kate. “'Representing' Africa: Ambassadors and Princes from Christian Africa to Renaissance Italy and Portugal, 1402-1608.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Sixth Series, vol. 17, pp. 101-128

Meyers, David. “Ritual, Confession, and Religion in Sixteenth-Century Germany.” Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, vol. 89, 1998. pp. 125-143

Murat, Zuleika. “Wall paintings through the ages: the medieval period (Italy, twelfth to fifteenth century).” Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, vol. 12, no. 191. Springer, October 2021. pp. 1-27

Overty, Joanne Filippone. “The Cost of Doing Scribal Business: Prices of Manuscript Books in England, 1300-1483.” Book History 11, 2008. pp. 1-32

Page, Sophie. Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013

Park, Katharine. “The Criminal and the Saintly Body: Autopsy and Dissection in Renaissance Italy.” Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring 1994. pp. 1-33

Rebel, Hermann. Peasant Classes: The Bureaucratization of Property and Family Relations under Early Habsburg Absolutism, 1511-1636. Princeton University Press, 1983

Rublack, Ulinka. “Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Female Body in Early Modern Germany.” Past & Present, vol. 150, no. 1, February 1996. pp. 84-110

Salvadore, Matteo. “The Ethiopian Age of Exploration: Prester John's Discovery of Europe, 1306-1458.” Journal of World History, vol. 21, no. 4, 2011. pp. 593 - 627

Sangster, Alan. “The Earliest Known Treatise on Double Entry Bookkeeping by Marino de Raphaeli”. The Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 42, no. 2, 2015. pp. 1-33.

Throop, Priscilla. Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing. Healing Arts Press, 1998

Usher, Abbott Payson. “The Origins of Banking: The Primitive Bank of Deposit, 1200-1600.” The Economic History Review, vol. 4, no. 4, 1934. pp. 399-428

Waldman, Louis A. “Commissioning Art in Florence for Matthias Corvinus: The Painter and Agent Alexander Formoser and his Sons, Jacopo and Raffaello del Tedesco.” Italy and Hungary: Humanism and Art in the Early Renaissance. Edited by Péter Farbaky and Louis A. Waldman, Villa I Tatti, 2011. pp. 427-501

Wendt, Ulrich. Kultur und Jagd: ein Birschgang durch die Geschichte. G. Reimer, 1907

Whelan, Mark. “Taxes, Wagenburgs and a Nightingale: The Imperial Abbey of Ellwangen and the Hussite Wars, 1427-1435.” The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 72, no. 4, 2021, pp. 751-777.e

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2008

Yardeni, Ada. The Book of Hebrew Script: History, Paleography, Script Styles, Calligraphy & Design. Tyndale House Publishers, 2010

#pentiment #Pentiment bibliography #some of these books give me strong first-year undergrad vibes #even just seeing ulinka rublack’s name gives me semi-traumatic flashbacks to cultural history seminars #would I cope better with it now that I don’t have to write essays each week on the topic?#¯\_ (ツ)_/¯#probs not tbh #also it probably would have been a lot faster if I could have pulled this list from game files somehow #but I do not know how to do that :)))#Anyway I hope this is of use to somebody at some point #I wish you all a very happy reading about the primitive deposit banking system everybody ��

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mapsontheweb · 1 year

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Hello,

We just released a beautiful and scientifically-accurate “Map of the Universe”: -

http://MapoftheUniverse.net

- Press release by Johns Hopkins University:

https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/11/17/interactive-universe-map/

We will be delighted to have this map on your website. Feel free to contact us if we can help with anything. Regards, Brice Ménard

#submission #space #universe

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percheduphere · 5 months

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Hey! At first, I want to say that really adore your essays. I found your blog shortly after I joined tumblr and it was a great beginning.

My question is not only about Loki. Few times you mentioned that queer subtext always existed in cinema. So I wanted to know more about it. Are there any common tricks which artists use? How can we know that it isn't just our imagination?

And if you could give some literature recommendations on this topic I'd be thrilled :)

Hi Anon!

This is a really important question. I’m so glad you asked it, so I’ve bumped you to the front of my inbox queue.

Superhell (Destiel). Superheaven (Aziracrow). Supertime (Lokius). It’s not an accident these types of tragic queer endings are a pattern in our TV media. Though of the three, Good Omens is the most likely to deliver a happy ending eventually, the resources I provide below contextualize why queer subtext and queer tragedy persists. I believe the paper on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a particularly important read as it sheds light on tragic queer tropes and utilization of queer subtext from the 1950s that persist to this day.

I do need to clarify a few things:

1.) I’m not a formal scholar. I don’t have a Master’s, let alone a PhD. I would love to continue my education, but I only just finished paying off my student loans. This is to say, most of what I’ve learned is from self-guided reading, watching documentaries, and talking to literary and cinematic professionals and members of the LGBTQAI+ community.

2.) Subtext exists in all forms of art: literature, music, painting, sculptures, film, and so on. There is no 1-to-1 definition of what subtext could be because subtext, by its very definition, is the communicating of information and/or a feeling without communicating it directly. It’s also important to remember that we use subtext in everyday life without realizing it.

3.) It’s necessary to share foundational resources in order to provide a greater contextual understanding in response to your question. The resources I'll be sharing, which will go from broad foundational to specifically queer subtext in cinema, are as follows: A.) Using JSTOR, B.) Linguistics & Subtext, C.) Film History, D.) Queer Subtext in Literature, Theater, and Film.

USING JSTOR

JSTOR is an incredible academic journal article resource. You can sign-up as a user and have access to up to 100 articles per month online for free! If you don’t feel comfortable creating an account, you can also visit your local library, who more likely than not have a JSTOR membership.

When searching for articles, I recommend using these keywords: queer, homosexuality, subtext, literature, film, history.

LINGUISTICS & SUBTEXT

Pragmatics

-- Jerome Bruner’s “Pragmatics of Language and Language of Pragmatics” (Available on JSTOR; Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press)

-- Kristin Borjesson’s “The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface: The Role of Speak Intentions and Nature of Implicit Meaning Aspects” (Available on JSTOR; Published by Armand Colin)

Iceberg Theory and Theory of Omission

-- Silvia Ammary’s “Poe’s ‘Theory of Omission” and Hemingway’s ‘Unity Effect’” (Available on JSTOR; Published in the Edgar Allan Poe Review)

-- Charles J. Nolan, Jr’s “‘Out of Season’: The Importance of Close Reading’” (Available on JSTOR; Published in the Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature)

-- Paul Smith’s “Hemingway’s Early Manuscripts: The Theory and Practice of Omission” (Available on JSTOR; Published by Journal of Modern Literature)

Implicature

-- Catherine Abell’s “Pictorial Implicature” (An important read as it provides academic context on interpretation of the visual medium, which is connected to interpretation of film; Available on JSTOR; Published by The American Society for Aesthetics)

-- Eric Swanson’s “Omissive Implicature” (Linguistic study on implied communication through omission) Available on JSTOR; Published by University of Arkansas Press)

-- Jacques Moeshcler’s “On the Pragmatics of Logical Connectives” (Published in the book: “Aspects of Linguistic Variation)

Exformation

-- David Foster Wallace’s “Laughing with Kafka” (Yes, the same writer of the book, Infinite Jest! A quick 4-page read that explains exformation in literature using Kafka as an example; Available on JSTOR; Published in Log by Anyone Corporation)

-- Stephen J. Burn’s “Reading the Multiple Drafts Novel” (23 pages; can be a slog to read, but it addresses the issues of “canon”; Available on JSTOR; Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press)

FILM HISTORY

Generally, I recommend looking up Hollywood History pre-code (Hays Code aka the Motion Picture Production Code from 1930-1967). Notice that the code’s abandonment was gradual in the 60s, which was when the U.S.’s sexual revolution occured. The MPAA Film Rating System went into effect in 1968.

Sin if Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood by Mark A. Vieira

Available in hard cover on Amazon (looks like there’s only 1 copy left); no digital version that I can find. You may be able to find this at your library.

Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934): When Sin Rules the Movies by Mark A. Vieira

Available on Kindle. Similar to Vieira’s first book but considered inferior.

The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo

Published in the 1980s, a groundbreaking work and the first of its kind. It’s dated but still considered critical reading.

Screening the Sexes: Homosexuality in the Movies by Parker Tyler

Available in hardcover and paperback. This is also considered critical reading to be paired with Celluloid Closet.

Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video by Raymond Murray

Available in paperback on Amazon (1 copy left); likely to be in the library as well.

QUEER SUBTEXT IN LITERATURE, THEATER, AND FILM

Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans through Homoerotic Possibilities

The first book of its kind, published in 2019. A must-read as contributing articles include analysis on Supernatural, Sherlock, and Merlin, among many others. I highly recommend reading the entire book, but it is expensive. You may be able to find this at your library.

My recommended articles from this book:

-- Joseph Brenann’s “Introduction: A History of Queerbaiting” is critical to understanding the Loki series specific place in queer fandom and media history.

-- Monique Franklin’s “Queerbaiting, Queer Readings, and Heteronormative Viewing Practices”

-- Guillaume Sirois’s “Hollywood Queerbaiting and the (In)Visibility of Same-Sex Desire

-- Christoferr Bagger’s “Multiversal Queerbaiting: Alan Scott, Alternate Universes, and Gay Characters in Superhero Comics”

Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World

About half the price of Queerbaiting and Fandom but significantly more broad in scope.

My recommended articles from this book:

-- Cornel Sandvoss’s The Death of the Reader? Literary Theory and the Study of Texts in Popular Culture

-- Derek Johnson’s “Fantagonism: Factions, Institutions, Constitutive Hegemonies of Fandom”

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Reading of epic poem recommended)

-- David L. Boyd’s “Sodomy, Misogyny, and Displacement: Occluding Queer Desire in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (available on JSTOR; from Arthuriana published by Scriptorium Press)

Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (Reading the novel recommended)

-- Jeff Nunokawa’s “Homosexual Desire and the Effacement of the Self in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’” (available on JSTOR; Published by The Johns Hopkins University)

-- Ed Cohen’s “Writing Gone Wilde: Homoerotic Desire in the Closet of Representation” (available on JSTOR; Published by Cambridge University Press)

-- Sandra Mayer’s “‘A Complex Multiform Creature’: Ambiguity and Limitation Foreshadowed in the Early Critical Reception of Oscar Wilde” (available on JSTOR; Published in AAA: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik)

Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Reading the short story [“Three Players of a Summer Game” and stage play and watching the film adaptation highly recommended)

-- Dean Shackelford’s “The Truth That Must Be Told: Gay Subjectivity, Homophobia, and Social History in “‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’”. (A must-read, in my opinion. You see a lot of patterns that continue in our subtextual queer stories to this day, concerning since Williams’s play was written in the early 1950s. Available on JSTOR; published in The Tennessee Williams Annual Review)

I hope these resources are helpful and interesting to you! Happy reading!

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garadinervi · 1 year

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Lucille Clifton, here rests [Bibl.: Lucille Clifton, Mercy, BOA Edition, Rochester, NY, 2004], in Lucille Clifton and Sonia Sanchez: A Conversation [Moderated by Eisa Davis, The New School, New York, NY, October 24, 2001], «Callaloo», Vol. 25, No. 4 (Autumn, 2002), Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimora, MD, [pp. 1038-1074], p. 1040-1041 (youtu here)

#graphic design #reading #poetry #video #school #journal #lucille clifton #sonia sanchez #eisa davis #cave canem #callaloo #johns hopkins university press #2000s

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transmutationisms · 9 months

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hi! :) can you recommend any books on the french revolution

if you are just looking for the bare-bones, 101 introduction to what events happened:

A Short History of the French Revolution, Jeremy Popkin (this has gone through many editions but i think anything from 2019 onward is fine. it's not exciting)

The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution, ed. David Andress (2013: Oxford University Press) (<-not cutting-edge nor particularly daring. just useful if you need background on a particular chapter. skip around as much as you like)

two recent-ish edited volumes that serve as good introductions to scholars working in the 21st century, the french revolution as global event, the importance of colonial/imperial expansion, and some economic analysis that nuances the classic marxian interpretation but also rejects furot et al's idealist approach:

The French Revolution in Global Perspective, ed. Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, & William Max Nelson (2013: Cornell University Press) (<-esp pay attention to kwass, nelson, spieler imo)

Life in Revolutionary France, ed. Mette Harder & Jennifer Ngaire Heuer (2020: Bloomsbury)

some monographs i like:

The Death of the French Atlantic: Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution, Alan Forrest (2020: Oxford University Press)

Utopia’s Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution, Emma Spary (2000: University of Chicago Press)

Morbid Undercurrents: Medical Subcultures in Postrevolutionary France, Sean Quinlan (2021: Cornell University Press)

The Citizen-Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris, Dora Weiner (2002: Johns Hopkins University Press) (<-really bad and facile take on foucault that flies blatantly in the face of the actual evidence she presents in the book itself lol)

The French Revolution: Faith, Desire and Politics, Noah Shusterman (2014) (<-does not discuss the haitian revolution or colonial developments at all, which is very lmao, but useful text if you want to know about politics and religion w/in the metropole / church-state relations)

#book recs

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mariacallous · 2 years

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There was no single moment when the democratic backsliding began in Hungary. There were no shots fired, no tanks in the streets. “Orbán doesn’t need to kill us, he doesn’t need to jail us,” Tibor Dessewffy, a sociology professor at Eötvös Loránd University, told me. “He just keeps narrowing the space of public life. It’s what’s happening in your country, too—the frog isn’t boiling yet, but the water is getting hotter.” He acknowledged that the U.S. has safeguards that Hungary does not: the two-party system, which might forestall a slide into perennial single-party rule; the American Constitution, which is far more difficult to amend. Still, it wasn’t hard for him to imagine Americans a decade hence being, in some respects, roughly where the Hungarians are today. “I’m sorry to tell you, I’m your worst nightmare,” Dessewffy said, with a wry smile. As worst nightmares went, I had to admit, it didn’t seem so bad at first glance. He was sitting in a placid garden, enjoying a lemonade, wearing cargo shorts. “This is maybe the strangest part,” he said. “Even my parents, who lived under Stalin, still drank lemonade, still went swimming in the lake on a hot day, still fell in love. In the nightmare scenario, you still have a life, even if you feel somewhat guilty about it.”

Lee Drutman, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins, tweeted last year, “Anybody serious about commenting on the state of US democracy should start reading more about Hungary.” In other words, not only can it happen here but, if you look at certain metrics, it’s already started happening. Republicans may not be able to rewrite the Constitution, but they can exploit existing loopholes, replace state election officials with Party loyalists, submit alternative slates of electors, and pack federal courts with sympathetic judges. Representation in Hungary has grown less proportional in recent years, thanks to gerrymandering and other tweaks to the electoral rules. In April, Fidesz got fifty-four per cent of the vote but won eighty-three per cent of the districts. “At that level of malapportionment, you’d be hard pressed to find a good-faith political scientist who would call that country a true democracy,” Drutman told me. “The trends in the U.S. are going very quickly in the same direction. It’s completely possible that the Republican Party could control the House, the Senate, and the White House in 2025, despite losing the popular vote in every case. Is that a democracy?”

In 2018, Steve Bannon, after he was fired from the Trump Administration, went on a kind of European tour, giving paid talks and meeting with nationalist allies across the Continent. In May, he stopped in Budapest. One of his hosts there was the XXI Century Institute, a think tank with close ties to the Orbán administration. “I can tell, Viktor Orbán triggers ’em like Trump,” Bannon said onstage, flashing a rare smile. “He was Trump before Trump.” After his speech, he joined his hosts for a dinner cruise on the Danube. (The cruise was captured in unreleased footage from the documentary “The Brink.” Bannon’s spokesperson stopped responding to requests for comment.) On board, Bannon met Miklós Szánthó, sipping a beer and watching the sun set, who mentioned that he ran a “conservative, center-right think tank” that opposed “N.G.O.s financed by the Open Society network.”

“Oh, my God, Soros!” Bannon said. “You guys beat him up badly here.” Szánthó accepted the praise with a stoic grin. Bannon went on, “We love to take lessons from you guys in the U.S.”

In 2018, “Trump before Trump” was the highest compliment that Bannon could think to pay Orbán. In 2022, many on the American right are trying to anticipate what a Trump after Trump might look like. Orbán provides one potential answer. Even Trump’s putative allies will admit, in private, that he was a lazy, feckless leader. They wanted an Augustus; they got a Caligula. In theory, Trump was amenable to dismantling the administrative state, to pushing norms and institutions beyond their breaking points, even to reaping the benefits of a full autocratic breakthrough. But, instead of laying out long-term strategies to wrest control of key levers of power, he tweeted, and watched TV, and whined on the phone about how his tin-pot insurrection schemes weren’t coming to fruition. What would happen if the Republican Party were led by an American Orbán, someone with the patience to envision a semi-authoritarian future and the diligence and the ruthlessness to achieve it?

In 2018, Patrick Deneen’s book “Why Liberalism Failed” was admired by David Brooks and Barack Obama. Last year, Deneen founded a hard-right Substack called the Postliberal Order, on which he argued that right-wing populists had not gone nearly far enough—that American conservatism should abandon its “defensive crouch.” One of his co-authors wrote a post from Budapest, offering an example of how this could work in practice: “It’s clear that Hungarian conservatism is not defensive.” J. D. Vance has voiced admiration for Orbán’s pro-natalist family policies, adding, “Why can’t we do that here?” Rod Dreher told me, “Seeing what Vance is saying, and what Ron DeSantis is actually doing in Florida, the concept of American Orbánism starts to make sense. I don’t want to overstate what they’ll be able to accomplish, given the constitutional impediments and all, but DeSantis is already using the power of the state to push back against woke capitalism, against the crazy gender stuff.” According to Dreher, what the Republican Party needs is “a leader with Orbán’s vision—someone who can build on what Trumpism accomplished, without the egomania and the inattention to policy, and who is not afraid to step on the liberals’ toes.”

In common parlance, the opposite of “liberal” is “conservative.” In political-science terms, illiberalism means something more radical: a challenge to the very rules of the game. There are many valid critiques of liberalism, from the left and the right, but Orbán’s admirers have trouble articulating how they could install a post-liberal American state without breaking a few eggs (civil rights, fair elections, possibly the democratic experiment itself). “The central insight of twentieth-century conservatism is that you work within the liberal order—limited government, free movement of capital, all of that—even when it’s frustrating,” Andrew Sullivan said. “If you just give away the game and try to seize as much power as possible, then what you’re doing is no longer conservative, and, in my view, you’re making a grave, historic mistake.” Lauren Stokes, the Northwestern historian, is a leftist with her own radical critiques of liberalism; nonetheless, she, too, thinks that the right-wing post-liberals are playing with fire. “By hitching themselves to someone who has put himself forward as a post-liberal intellectual, I think American conservatives are starting to give themselves permission to discard liberal norms,” Stokes told me. “When a Hungarian court does something Orbán doesn’t like—something too pro-queer, too pro-immigrant—he can just say, ‘This court is an enemy of the people, I don’t have to listen to it.’ I think Republicans are setting themselves up to adopt a similar logic: if the system gives me a result I don’t like, I don’t have to abide by it.”

Does Hungary Offer a Glimpse of Our Authoritarian Future?

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lol you guys want a *checks watch* Tuesday update?? I am trying my darndest to wrap this one up, so please enjoy and thank you for being patient with me. If you're new here, you can read Full Circle from the beginning on Ao3. CW: Lots of religious themes in this one. Definitely only read if you're in the right headspace for that sort of thing.

Chapter Eleven

Folks can say what they like about organized religion, and say plenty more about Catholicism in particular, but there’s a universal truth that most anyone can agree on, regardless of their broader opinions on the matter—the Catholics know how to build a church.

The undisputed masters of the craft, in Matt’s opinion, are of course the Italians. It’s hard to top all of that Renaissance art and harder still to top the ancient and ornate architecture that surrounds it. With centuries to practice, they’ve perfected the sacred artistry of it all—made saints out of marble, carved psalms into stone, and painstakingly plated their ceilings in gold. There’s beauty to a culture that erects an entire city in the name of worship and every time Matt visits, a strand of spirituality knits to dense cloth in his stomach. Italy grounds him to God in a way Nebraska never could.

There are echoes of Italy in the churches along America’s east coast. Rich, European roots have reached across the Atlantic and sprouted up in all of the major settlements, growing straight into the cities of today. There have been adaptations and modernizations, to be sure, but it only takes one glance to recognize the influence. Generations upon generations of architects have had their way with stone, marble, gold, and glass, all in an effort to build a place of worship worthy of one almighty God.

This church is no exception, an exquisite stone citadel tucked into a far-off corner of the John Hopkins campus. Matt stares up at it from the edge of the sidewalk as an entirely new feeling burrows into the base of his stomach. It’s a behemoth of limestone, capped by a patinated emerald copper. The doors wait for him at the top of an insurmountable staircase, hidden behind the jaws of awesome, towering pillars. It’s beautiful, and structural, and dignified, but suffers ever so slightly from an uncanny sense of Americana that likens it more to DC’s Capitol District than to the grand Italian cathedrals. It ought to be a library. It ought to be a bank.

If he keeps listing all the things it should be, maybe he won’t have to face the truth, and maybe he’ll finally convince himself to walk inside.

Two small, iron sconces act as the only guiding light through an otherwise dark evening, offering a candlelit glow that feels too faint for the task at hand. The shine barely reaches Matt’s breath, clouding up against the chill. One step. It’ll only take one step. He knows he ought to pray for strength, but praying is part of the problem these days, so he keeps his thoughts down here on Earth where no one can hear them. Instead of the Heavens, his prayers find their way into stiff shoulders, into icy lungs, into the stinging red-white swirl of his bare and bruised knuckles.

You’re too good for that.

He ain’t too proud of where he left things with Rachel, all twisted up in tears, and cold, and words that feel harsh in hindsight. Screaming and hollering never suited him, and it definitely don’t suit her. Rachel’s the type to let silence do most of her speaking. She’s the type to set a guy straight with a single glance. This evening is proof of a sharper side to her personality, defined by an anger that lingers even in her absence. It mixes with his own to form a stiff, shameful weight atop his shoulders, pressing into skin, muscle, and bone until he’s got no choice but to slump beneath it all.

Matt beholds the grand staircase before him and takes his first step toward the Heavens.

It ought to be a courthouse. It ought to be a museum.

Come to think of it, he’s not too happy with how he left Abby, either—midway through a dance, without so much as a thank you or a goodbye. Maybe he’s grateful this business with the Circle distracted him long enough to soften the immediacy of her rejection, but it all catches up to him now. He’s got the instant replay rolling through his head, slipping into slow motion, every movement analyzed under an intense, frame-by-frame scrutiny. He’s spent years planning his confession, practicing it over and over in his head, but now he’s gone and pitched wide and high. Blew his shot at the major leagues before he could even take it, just so he could chase down a phony lead with an alibi that Abby already swore by.

He climbs up one step, then another. The banister is ice beneath his palm. The air is frozen to the sides of his throat. He shivers against the absence of a coat he left hanging on Rachel’s shoulders.

It ought to be a theater. It ought to be a police station.

There’s some solace in the fact that he’s still got Joe, off somewhere in a North Baltimore motel making a pot of coffee that will keep them both up all night. They’ll need the extra hours, now that they’ve run head-first into another dead end. This ain’t the first time they’ll start from scratch on their search for the center of the Circle, but it is the first time Matt wonders if they’re going about it the right way. If they should be going about it at all.

Each step comes right after the last until he’s falling, falling, falling heavenward. The staircase finally plateaus at its top and Matt has to pause. Catch his breath.

It’s just a church. Same as all the others. He’s walked into dozens just like it.

Even so, apprehension slithers up and around his ankles, binding him in place, pulling him deep into the stone. Standing before a building this mighty, he can’t help but feel tiny in comparison. With every step, the church grows taller and Matt only shrinks in its wake, the shadow of the night deepened by the presence of such an imposing beast. A wind whistles through the columns, flags and banners snapping in the breeze, and Matt swears he feels a breath.

Maybe it’s high time he came in from the cold.

Strands of panic cuff his wrists. It takes all he has to snap free of them, reaching for black handles that are worn to gold at the crest of each curve. The double doors open under his tender touch, easy and welcoming, as though he was always meant to walk right in. Matt’s not one to ignore a sign from above when he sees it, which is probably how he musters up the courage to take the first step inside.

They just don’t make them like this back home—pew, after pew, after pew lined in perfect rows across a solid stone floor. Grand, arching ceilings made of interlocking brick, stretching from window to window. The stained glass has gone dark with the night, their colors now dense and thick compared to the airiness of daylight, but the hanging pendants catch faint, muted streaks of red and blue and gold. There are twelve windows, weaving between twelve Stations of the Cross, all leading up to the twelve disciples mosaicked above one massive, marble altar.

Matt is greeted first by the low trickle of a stone baptismal font. As he basks in the Lord’s surrounding beauty, his fingertips float toward the sound and it’s not until he strikes the warmth of the holy water that he realizes what’s happened. Muscle memory sends his fingers flicking before he brings his own touch to his head, his chest, shoulder to shoulder, just like his mama taught him all those years ago.

Ain’t no going back now.

The lights are lit, but dimmed. All of the candles are extinguished, save the few burning in memoriam at the Mother Mary’s feet. Matt is alone as he marches down an empty aisle, but even so, he can’t escape the feeling of a watchful eye. A tail he can’t quite shake.

But he doesn’t search over his shoulder or examine the shadows, because he’ll find no one there. He knows that. Instead, he turns his gaze toward the sky and does the one thing no agent is ever supposed to do—blow his own cover. “I reckon a few Hail Marys ain’t gonna cut it this time, huh?”

Prayers in real life don’t look like prayers in the stories. Not in Matt’s experience, anyway. In the stories, a prayer always makes its way to God and it’s always answered in a timely manner, be that through a serendipitous act of grace, a convenient streak of luck, or a miraculous one-on-one conversation with the Big Guy himself. But it’s never been that simple for Matt. He’s had prayers answered, sure, but never with such clarity. Never with any amount of certainty.

For Matt, prayers feel more like a faithful cast into an inky night. He was raised to believe that there’s strength and beauty in the unknown, in the unsure, in the repeated hope that someone, somewhere is listening to his deepest thoughts, and desires, and pleas. The power of God comes from the willingness to believe He is present, even when evidence suggests otherwise. The power is in the gutting, hollow hope that he is not alone, even when it most feels like he is. “The best I can offer instead, is an apology,” says Matt. “So I’m sorry. I ain’t been around too much. And I’m sorry someone else had to realize it before I could.”

Only here, standing at the heart of His church does Matt begin to run the numbers. The number of days without a service. The number of deeds without goodwill. The number of prayers locked tight in his chest, for fear that their bitter cadence would expose the rest of his unholy insides. Matt shivers at the thought of how much longer he would have gone, had he not been redirected to Baltimore. Had Rachel not found this place for him. Had they not screamed, and hollered, and tore one another to pieces.

“And for what it’s worth, she’s wrong, y’know.” The words come out quick, and sharp, and unexpected. He has to settle the unbound eagerness, lest it sound too much like guilt. “She always thinks she’s right, but she’s wrong this time. We both know she’s wrong, don’t we? Because I ain’t been too good lately.”

His hand falls to the squared edge of a single pew, lacquered wood smooth beneath his touch. He takes comfort in the ritual—in the soundlessness of the church, in the familiar smells of stale incense and melted wax. Matt slides into the pew and folds the kneeler to the floor, falling to his knees, because that’s just what a fella is supposed to do when he walks into church. Holy water, sign of the cross, prayer. It’s been that way since he was a boy, so he lets his wrists fall against the edge of the wood and laces his fingers together.

Blotches of red, and purple, and black stain his worship.

He shuts his eyes, aiming for focus, but waves of memory wash over him with every throb of his interlocked knuckles. Years of double-booked days. Weeks spent in hiding in Rome, and Budapest, and Warsaw. So many lies that he’s forgotten the truth. Without permission, his mind begins to count the commandments he’s broken and they add up quicker than he cares to admit. One, two, three, four—his rising thoughts turn a remorseful, bloody red.

He has stolen files from Hungarian embassies and robbed Russian dignitaries blind. He has fought his way through the Circle’s lowest ranks and manipulated the wants, wills, and desires of every informant he could find. In the past year, Matt’s assets have been drowned, poisoned, or imprisoned for the simple crime of answering his questions, and it’s hard not to take credit for those deaths. Matt has yet to kill a man with his own two hands, but there’s plenty of blame to be shared for those that die by the Circle’s hand at his prompting. “And I’m sorry for that, too,” he says. “I am. I am, truly—when we got into this mission, we were trying to save lives. But it seems like I’ve done more harm than good, since we started. I know Pops always said you can’t fight fire with fire, but I dunno. I dunno. Kinda feels like there’s no amount of good that’s gonna fight off this kind of bad. Kinda feels like more bad is the only thing left.”

His knuckles throb against the strain in his grip, but he doesn’t remember how to loosen it. Can’t make himself feel at ease. After years of lying to everyone he knows, he’s forced to finally face the raw, gnarly truth. Matt can’t lie to an all-knowing God and, in turn, Matt can’t lie to himself, either. Not anymore. “No one ever tells you if it’s okay to do bad things for a good reason,” he says. “And while we’re on the subject—no one really tells you what a good reason is, either.”

Everything you do is about Joe. And I don’t know how you haven’t figured that out yet.

Because if Matt is finally honest with himself, he knows he was never truly in this to save lives, plural. He was only ever in this for one life—for Joe’s life. Rachel had seen that much and told him so, even before Matt knew it himself. Maintaining the world order and preventing nuclear apocalypse are both handy side effects, but in the end, all of this is for his friend, his partner, his brother. For perfectly synced fights with someone who can anticipate his every move. For glass shattered across the kitchen floor and Joe’s head in his lap. For a sleepless night in basic training, then another beside a bathtub in Italy.

Because meeting Joe the first time, hidden behind Army camo and a fake name pulled straight from the pages of a bible, had been a stroke of luck. But meeting Joe a second time, at the edge of Italy and in the middle of a city’s prayer, at the exact moment they most needed one another—that had been an act of divine intervention. Matt had known better than to turn away from something like that. He’s spent all his life wondering if prayers get answered, and he knew better than to look away when it finally happened.

Friends are a noble cause. Joe is a noble cause. Matt doesn’t know what he’s supposed to fight for, if not for the people he loves. “Except maybe I’m not sorry for that, after all,” he confesses. “I mean, what’s Joe supposed to be anyway, huh? Is he supposed to be some kinda test? Because I’ll fail that one every time, swear to—”

He stops himself. That’s probably in poor taste.

“Well, anyway,” he says, shifting on his knees. “You sent me a brother—someone who sees straight into me like no one ever has before. Someone who keeps me alive when I should be dead ten times over by now. It’s not my fault you’ve gone and torn him into pieces. I’m just doing what I can to put him back together again. Send me a guy who’s hurting and I’ll find a way to make him hurt less. That’s what you told me to do. I’m acting in your image.”

And even though prayers aren’t usually answered in words, sometimes God still finds a way to reply, in the form of a twinged gut or a hot flash of red that runs down the spine. It’s the same feeling he used to get when his mama delivered her sharpest looks. “No, you’re right,” Matt admits, adding another broken commandment to his growing list. “I guess I’m not. But I don’t know if there’s a good way to do this—I don’t know. Can I serve you and serve Joe? Can I serve you and serve my country? Can I serve you and serve myself?”

These are the same questions that have been asked in the same churches, decade after decade and century after century. Just as He has done with every man before Matt, God leaves this particular question without an answer.

So Matt provides one of his own. “I don’t know if I can become a good man.” These words come out quieter than the rest, I’s dotted with apprehension and T’s crossed with hesitance. Even so, God hears them. God hears all. “But, sure as the sunrise, I ain’t proud of who I am now.”

Knuckles crack as his fingers fold and fidget between one another, desperately trying to break free of their prayer. He’s never felt this way before—filled with the urge to run. To forget. His brain is specially trained to remember every detail of every moment, and while that particular practice serves him well in the field, it has never done him many favors among the silences. Perfect recall is a lot like Fort Jackson’s gas chambers, in that it expands to fill all available space, sneaking into every crevice and snarling into every crack. One wrong move could steal a fella’s breath and claw at his throat.

He remembers the sounds of the crickets below Rachel’s raised voice. The smell of broken bourbon and Micheal’s ribs beneath Matt’s foot. The feeling of Abby’s hand on his shoulder, and the feeling of it falling away. The buzz of a fresh haircut. The thrum of a throbbing jaw. The smoothness of luxury leather.

“So I can promise you this,” he says, trying to fill the air with words before the memories engulf him entirely. “I can promise you I’ll try. I’ll try, and I’ll try, and I’ll try, however many times you’ll let me.”

The reek of a cigar. The chime of crystal. An impenetrable office, torn apart at the seams. Crooked curtains, and scattered paper, and stolen disks. Accusation after accusation from the man with all of the questions.

“I will try to be a good man.” A father who would do anything for his daughters. “Even if I can’t always do good things.”

And Matt figures that even if a string of Hail Marys ain’t gonna help, they at least won’t hurt. It’s out of habit that he mutters the prayer three times over, thoughts getting lost in the familiar cadence. Better than suffocating among his own memories. Hail Mary, full of grace. Hail Mary, full of grace. Hail Mary, full of grace. His mind is permitted to wander ever so slightly and just as Matt begins to ponder the existence of good people who do bad things for good reasons, epiphany strikes.

So maybe God does answer the occasional prayer, after all.

Matt’s eyes flash open, and he snaps his gaze toward the ornate ceiling overhead, and to the heavens beyond. With a sharp, satisfied sigh, he stands to his feet and draws the Sign of the Cross along his features. “Loud and clear, Big Guy,” he says. “Guess I’ll see you next week.”

He can’t can’t seem to stumble out of the pew quick enough, mind racing with answers to questions he didn’t even know he was asking. His exit is brisker than his entrance, neglecting the beauty of the church in favor of the stark and urgent need to leave. To get a cab. To find Joe.

But of course, when Matt opens the doors back into the cool spring night, Joe is already there.

The embers of his cigarette glow orange against the darkness. It’s the only thing that keeps him from being a complete shadow, all wrapped up in black, on black, on black. His silhouette stands resolute at the base of the staircase, turning to spot Matt high above. “What are you…?” Matt starts.

Joe flicks his cigarette between his fingers, sending sparks toward the cement of the sidewalk. “You couldn’t flag down a cab if your life depended on it,” he says, taking another huff and igniting the flame even further. “And to be clear, I know that because your life has depended on it. On more than one occasion.”

This is Joe’s way of saying that he stayed for Matt. This is also Joe’s way of avoiding the unspoken truth they both know—the Circle is everywhere, and Matt can’t afford to be alone.

Walking down the staircase feels so much shorter than the grueling trudge upward, but maybe that’s because Matt’s eager to get a move on. He bounds down the steps until he’s right at Joe’s side. “Then you ought to make quick work out of calling one.”

Curls of smoke tumble out of Joe’s sigh. “What’s the rush?” he says. “Excited for a thrilling night of retracing our steps? Can’t wait to spend hours combing through old case notes to scrape up another lead? After all, what are the odds that we hit another dead end?”

Matt shakes his head, and it's enough to draw Joe's eyebrows together. “We haven’t hit a dead end,” he says. “At least, not yet.”

And there’s something godly, between Matt and Joe. Something that doesn’t need words—an understanding that comes from some sixth sense that only exists between the two of them. All Matt has to do is cast his thoughts into the inky night, and Joe hears him. Loud and clear. In all of the places God usually leaves Matt wondering, Joe always makes sure to answer every last one of Matt’s silent prayers.

At the foot of the church steps, Joe drops his cigarette to the sidewalk, grinds it under the sole of his shoe, and raises two fingers toward a pair of oncoming headlights.

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