This should worry me more.

[dira]

Five Emotions Invented by the Internet

The third one is ... very familiar. Yes.

Speaking of which, I should go write something instead of refreshing all my tabs 600 more times and then giving up and going to bed, shouldn't I?

Oh, also: come and tell me which Mary Renault book to read next, I am halfway through The Persian Boy, and I suspect Funeral Games would just make me sad.


P. S. I have finally seen Lawrence of Arabia for the first time except I think I ... missed some things, due to not having the attention span for a four-hour movie when my laptop is right next to me. Also I was kind of confused, because I had already seen Ralph Fiennes and Alexander Siddig in Lawrence After Arabia, so I was all like, Yes! Lawrence and Prince Feisal! THEY ARE BOYFRIENDS! And that was not it at all. *g*

Anyway, the upshot is that I think I need to see Lawrence of Arabia again sometime, with more fangirls and fewer available distractions.

Comments

[polarisnorth]

Fffffffff, Lawrence of Arabia. I'm so conflicted about this movie. It's one of those movies that I really loved but I'm not sure I could ever sit through a rewatch of, even for the Epic Gay. Which reminds me, I need to read The Seven Pillars of Wisdom and that new Lawrence biography that's out.

[dira]

I liked it, even aside from the Epic Gay, on a level of Oh Lawrence, How Are You Such a Ginormous Woobie, but that was also the level on which I didn't really understand it--possibly, I admit, because I was not paying the strictest attention, but what the hell is going on in his mind? I do not get it. *g*

[polarisnorth]

I'm not sure you're supposed to understand him? There are books devoted to trying to understand him, and he lied like a rug in his autobiography. There's a book about the movie itself that my professor recommended to me; it's called Lawrence of Arabia: A Film's Anthropology, by Steven Caton. I don't know if you'd be interested, but there it is.

[dira]

Yeah, that's one of the hypotheses I arrived at after the movie had ended and I was sitting there going "Wait, what?" But it's not very satisfying! *g*