Not being in the swim.

Dolores 2022-04-19 09:03:12

These poems first led me to find a little bit of emotional energy today. unembaraced, unconfessed "being out of it, whether because of diffidence or shyness. But a holding back. Not being in the swim." There is actually a real dialogue between a teacher and a student about literature in the movie. Both are Gay, "I felt that a bit." This kind of story that just introduces the background of the characters and a little bit of language, I can feel the completeness behind it. The oddity I would describe it as "magical" is because it really exists and the movie tries to represent it in such a good way, and I hope it resonates. (Anyway, I have mastered the skills of resonance more and more. (I will get tired of it soon. About Holocaust, it is difficult to talk or to think about its possibility, to feel and honor the sacred or to watch it, and to live and real as the The scale is still beyond human scale. Obviously it is not a problem of fucking teaching method

Reckless, impulsive, immortal. How come there is such a difference between the way you teach and the way you live? Why are you so bold in argument and talking but when it comes to the point…you are so fucking careful…

History has no subjunctive at all, it's just one fucking thing after another. Very enlightening

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  • [talking about Tom Irwin]

    Headmaster: He comes highly-recommended.

    Mrs. Lintott: So did Anne of Cleves.

    Headmaster: Who? He's up-to-the-minute, more "now".

    Mrs. Lintott: [dryly] Now? I thought history was "then".

  • [Dakin is groping Fiona, using World War I as a metaphor for his "assault" on her body. He moves his hand up her thighs but she pushes it away]

    Dakin: What's the matter?

    Fiona: No-man's land.

    Dakin: Ah, fuck. What do I do with this?

    [he points to his erection]

    Fiona: Carry out a controlled explosion?