*banshee shriek* STOP I'LL HAVE TO GO BACK AND REREAD IT DON'T DO THIS TO ME
1. She pulls that out of the bag again in The Friendly Young Ladies which is a masterclass in subsumed emotion and painfully familiar circumlocutive hints, I want to dig her up and eat her brain.
2. of closing the door from the inside, of letting it define you rather than be a part of you yeah this MASSIVELY resonated with me, especially from my hideous time with the Brightonians. I think Ms Renault being a Ladygay herself probably helped a lot with those observations and THE SUPREME DISCOMFORT of the first party at Sandy & Alex's place was amazing. So painfully, horribly familiar, so awful, and so honest.
3. I suspect Ralph drinks in part because he knows he cannot BE in control, and because he's been fucked off having a ship and that was the one thing in his life that made him truly happy and free. :( He's like a law-abiding less bisexual Captain Sparrow. Probably better-washed, too.
4, 5, 6. I find him a bit hard and inflexible. I think in part it's
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1. OK I am adding The Friendly Young Ladies to the list then.
3. Yes, thank you that's such a better way of phrasing it. He drinks because he can't control everything, and he drinks so that he doesn't mind so much. Poor Ralph. He would have made a wonderful pirate. With a hook for a hand and everything.
4, 5, 6, Yes I think I was willing to go along with Andrew up til that point, but then Charlot's death shows him up for talking a good game but actually being quite self-centred. Laurie is just as bad as Dave at propping up Andrew's dogmatism in that regard, which I think Ralph points out at one point? How much do they love Andrew and how much do they love the unsullied idea of Andrew?
which echoes with some of the well-meaning elements of internet activism, don't you think? = Oh christ it really does.
7. God bless you Ralph and your inability to take no for an answer.
9. Which one is it? I looked through them all last night!
I think Laurie and Dave both use Andrew as a repository for things they'd like to be themselves, but can't. And in a way, Ralph is guilty of idealising Laurie to some extent?
9. The touch of autumn struck from his youth that cosmic sadness, which time will tame like the bite of spring. It is perfectly balanced, the sounds echo each other through it - it's such an exemplary piece of prosodic skill it makes me fucking angry.
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1. She pulls that out of the bag again in The Friendly Young Ladies which is a masterclass in subsumed emotion and painfully familiar circumlocutive hints, I want to dig her up and eat her brain.
2. of closing the door from the inside, of letting it define you rather than be a part of you yeah this MASSIVELY resonated with me, especially from my hideous time with the Brightonians. I think Ms Renault being a Ladygay herself probably helped a lot with those observations and THE SUPREME DISCOMFORT of the first party at Sandy & Alex's place was amazing. So painfully, horribly familiar, so awful, and so honest.
3. I suspect Ralph drinks in part because he knows he cannot BE in control, and because he's been fucked off having a ship and that was the one thing in his life that made him truly happy and free. :( He's like a law-abiding less bisexual Captain Sparrow. Probably better-washed, too.
4, 5, 6. I find him a bit hard and inflexible. I think in part it's ( ... )
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1. OK I am adding The Friendly Young Ladies to the list then.
3. Yes, thank you that's such a better way of phrasing it. He drinks because he can't control everything, and he drinks so that he doesn't mind so much. Poor Ralph. He would have made a wonderful pirate. With a hook for a hand and everything.
4, 5, 6, Yes I think I was willing to go along with Andrew up til that point, but then Charlot's death shows him up for talking a good game but actually being quite self-centred. Laurie is just as bad as Dave at propping up Andrew's dogmatism in that regard, which I think Ralph points out at one point? How much do they love Andrew and how much do they love the unsullied idea of Andrew?
which echoes with some of the well-meaning elements of internet activism, don't you think? = Oh christ it really does.
7. God bless you Ralph and your inability to take no for an answer.
9. Which one is it? I looked through them all last night!
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I think Laurie and Dave both use Andrew as a repository for things they'd like to be themselves, but can't. And in a way, Ralph is guilty of idealising Laurie to some extent?
9. The touch of autumn struck from his youth that cosmic sadness, which time will tame like the bite of spring.
It is perfectly balanced, the sounds echo each other through it - it's such an exemplary piece of prosodic skill it makes me fucking angry.
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