So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three problems of the century - the degradation of man by the exploitation of his labor, the ruin of women by starvation, and the atrophy of childhood by physical and spiritual night - are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a still broader point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this.

strandbooks:

Underlined passage The Waves by Virginia Woolf, p. 135

William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

my favorite things: The Little Prince (Book, published 1943)

soakemforcrutchie:

All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy

Virginia Woolf, The Waves.

pablo neruda, sonnet lxv

kinsssthetics:

Poison on the Night Stand: Bodies of exiled Austrian author Stefan Zweig & his wife lying on bed, still holding hands, after they committed suicide together – Rio De Janeiro, Brazil – 1942

aseaofquotes:

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

aseaofquotes:

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

The script follows the Tennessee Williams play closely with several small changes. However, there are three notably large alterations of the original plot. The first is the exclusion of Blanche’s late young husband’s homosexuality, which is referred to explicitly in the play, but only obliquely referred to in the movie. In the play, Blanche caught him in bed with another man and she screamed at him, calling him weak, and he killed himself; she blames herself for not understanding his feelings and for his resulting suicide. In the movie, the fact that her husband committed suicide is masked with a line from Blanche that says that “she killed him herself” by leading him to suicide. The second large difference is the rape scene. It is not explicitly shown/described in the play, but it is more obviously alluded to than in the movie. Two of Stanley’s key lines in the scene were omitted from the theatrical release: “Tiger, tiger, drop that bottle top,” which has since been added back to the movie, and “We’ve had this date with each other since the beginning!”, after which Stanley grabs Blanche and hauls her off to the bed. Both of these changes were made for censorship reasons, but they’ve changed the story in some basic ways and led to some confusion, especially about the rape scene, which is key to understanding Stanley’s final breaking of Blanche. The last change from the play is the ending. In the play, Stella stays with Stanley at the end: “He kneels beside her and his fingers find the opening of her blouse.” The reason she left him in the film was that the punishment of the rapist was demanded by the Hollywood moral code.