June 2013
8 posts
“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”
—Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna (via mercurieux)
“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
—Dante Alighieri (via witheredangel)
May 2013
31 posts
“You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.”
—Eckhart Tolle (via delicateswans)
“Oh we’re a mess, poor humans, poor flesh—hybrids of angels and animals, dolls with diamonds stuffed inside them We’ve been to the moon and we’re still fighting over Jerusalem. Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, I’d know it was something true. Now I’m trying to dig deeper.”
—Richard Siken, Black Telephone (Spork Editor’s Page)
“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?”
—Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard (via okayophelia)
“They mean one thing to one person, another thing to another person; they are unintelligible to one generation, plain as a pikestaff to the next. And it is because of this complexity that they survive. Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing to-day is that we refuse words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning, the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination. And when words are pinned down they fold their wings and die.”
—Virginia Woolf on words. (via explore-blog)
Vikings Interview
Okay, so, yes the finale was heartbreaking. Yes I’m pissed that Gyda freakin’ died - though I have to admit that I’m not surprised - and yes, I want the fallout between Ragnar and Lagertha, his reaction to Gyda’s death, Bjorn’s reaction to everything and Athelstan’s role in everything. (I really really wish the season was longer than 9 freakin’ episodes, my heart is too big and empty for 9 measly episodes)
But it seems - and this better be freakin true - that Michael Hirst is more than ready and willing to delve into all these points in the next season. Regardless of how much head-banging I want to do because of the finale, I actually like the way it was executed. It was more than I expected and as much as I want to wring Ragnar’s neck because hello - Lagertha will not just be going to Valhalla, she will be a Goddess because Odin is wise and not bloody blind - (so i’m biased, screw me.) Ragnar still fascinates me. His ambition, his endless thirst for knowledge, his quiet intense ways of calculation, observation and I just really want to know how his character develops.
Don’t even get me started on Lagertha. She’ll be a Queen among Wolves. (I really want her and Siggy becoming sister-in-arms, Athelstan pledging his loyalty to them - sorry Ragnar - and Bjorn becoming a fierce warrior at his mother’s side - le sigh.)
Hirst mentions Athelstan’s struggle with his Christian faith in the 2nd season, and I can’t wait to see how that plays out. And Aslaug is intriguing but I’m afraid of where they plan on going with her character… as well as Rollo. No simple villain-y stuff there I hope.
In any case, the interview with Hirst was definitely intriguing and he just might get some things right.
Doing some research into Ragnar and the numerous women he was believed to be involved with, and given the introduction of Aslaug, I was interested in how you intend to tackle that mythology, given that viewers have grown so attached to Lagertha.
What happened is again, unexpected, until you realize what a powerful and strong will this woman has. It’s very difficult for her, of course, with the new woman in Ragnar’s life. She has to make a decision whether she puts up with that or she doesn’t. And if she doesn’t, what she then does and in turn, how she comes back into Ragnar’s life. What I would say, because this is historical, is that Lagertha becomes an Earl in her own right. At some stage they are going to meet again as equals.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/28/vikings-season-finale-season-2-all-change_n_3175975.html
April 2013
113 posts
“The future for me is already a thing of the past -
You were my first love and you will be my last.” —Bob Dylan (via alve-us)
You were my first love and you will be my last.” —Bob Dylan (via alve-us)
