Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004), dir. Michel Gondry
chubby but mathematically perfect
these are the type of progress pics I like to see
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell
Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest. (via havisham)
#the tempest#i’m not going to lie this gives me… the willies a little#but in a good way a+ play
My undergrad adviser used to argue that there’s no better way to encapsulate the trajectory of Shakespeare’s career than by comparing these lines from Richard III:
Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks;
Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon;
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,
Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,
All scattered in the bottom of the sea:
Some lay in dead men’s skulls; and, in those holes
Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept,
As ‘twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems,
Which wooed the slimy bottom of the deep,
And mocked the dead bones that lay scattered by.
This imagery is terrifying in the earlier play, but by The Tempest it has itself become something rich and strange: what was once mockery is now, in a sense, redemptive. The body is no longer scorned, but transformed.
(via crystalandrock)
These are some of my favorite books I would love to reread this year 😊 I’m really looking forward to meet my favorite characters once again!
Beauty and the Beast: Setting goals for gifts from your boyfriend since 1991.
Treasure slow mornings, 2 coffees, and the feeling that the week will somehow start anew
