Drive-by post.
First of all, darkgloom bid for a fic from me and won! Lol, it's kind of like buying a hundred lottery tickets and ending up with a chia pet in return, isn't it?
Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
LOL I'm sorry for the wall of text. BUT I LOVE THIS ESSAY LIKE BURNING.
Thus Casablanca is not just one film. It is many films, an anthology. Made haphazardly, it probably made itself, if not actually against the will of its authors and actors, then at least beyond their control. [...] Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion. Just as the height of pain may encounter sensual pleasure, and the height of perversion border on mystical energy, so too the height of banality allows us to catch a glimpse of the sublime. Something has spoken in place of the director. If nothing else, it is a phenomenon worthy of awe.
--Umberto Eco, Casablanca, or, The Clichés are Having a Ball
I love cliches and archetypes, I can't help it. And this is the perfect explanation why. Augh, Eco's brain is too big for me but IDGAF.
ETA: Also, GIP ♥
Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
LOL I'm sorry for the wall of text. BUT I LOVE THIS ESSAY LIKE BURNING.
Thus Casablanca is not just one film. It is many films, an anthology. Made haphazardly, it probably made itself, if not actually against the will of its authors and actors, then at least beyond their control. [...] Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion. Just as the height of pain may encounter sensual pleasure, and the height of perversion border on mystical energy, so too the height of banality allows us to catch a glimpse of the sublime. Something has spoken in place of the director. If nothing else, it is a phenomenon worthy of awe.
--Umberto Eco, Casablanca, or, The Clichés are Having a Ball
I love cliches and archetypes, I can't help it. And this is the perfect explanation why. Augh, Eco's brain is too big for me but IDGAF.
ETA: Also, GIP ♥