Una McCormack

I just rewatched it and had a little cry

Find somebody who looks at you the way Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff looks at Clive Wynne-Candy for the whole closing scene of "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp".

Sunday is a holy day:
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I just don’t seem to get the second sleep these days.

They like violence.

Thank you so much! I really enjoyed writing that one.

There are no violins tiny enough for this

Star Trek is a very serious sci-fi show about exploring space and the human condition.

Also Star Trek: “Hey, remember when Lwaxana Troi’s telepathically shared menopause made everyone on DS9 snog each other?”

"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."

Wow!

Maybe I wasn’t until I watched Blimp 🍁

Was I always this sentimental? I don’t think so. @ythos.bsky.social, you’d know. Aren’t you the sentimental one?

We got shown that in school as part of a GCSE history class

We will finish the Nazis off, and we will love each other while we do it. Oh god someone stop me 🍁

Pressburger and Walbrook and all the rest of them go through so much, and they still find the grace to make this film. God, I’m off 🍁

Perhaps because it’s a statement of such great love and romanticism at the height of war? Excuse me, crying about the end again 🍁

I know it isn’t an anti-war film but I still want to say Blimp.

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

Read any good books last year hint hint?

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I’ll miss that world though.

Beautiful walk in Wandlebury this afternoon. I’ve been so deeply in my own mind the past few weeks. Good to start surfacing.

Thanks!

Paperback book: Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin

I’ve not read anything other than my own writing for over a month now. Back in with this.

Amazing film

Hackman is so BEAUTIFUL at the end; so vulnerable

OMG Hank Azaria though

Hackman is extraordinary

I think I’m just going to watch again. Hooted and hooted. Everyone so funny.

Watched The Birdcage yesterday for the first time. I know. Knew practically nothing about it. I know. The squeak I made when Baranski turned up.

Such terrible, terrible wickedness in this world.

Philosophy #FAQ Ontology: what the fuck? Causality: why the fuck? Epistemology: how the why the fuck? Phenomenology: the fuck.