My New York Year (meh)
Baby Driver (good action fun)
Suburbicon (written by Coen brothers)
The Paper Tigers (three old guys pick up their kung-fu fighting, so so)
Tuesday, 21 December 2021
Marion Zimmer - "The Mists of Avalon"
While at some point it felt repetitive and characters less realistic, there were some great parts in the book. Particularly the slow retreat of Avalon, the change that is happening upon the world because man believes in different things, is wonderful.
Flaubert quotes
Books aren't made in the way that babies are born, they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed on top of one another, and it's back-breaking, sweaty, time-consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands like that in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison.
As you get older, the heart sheds its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms which break off several branches at one go. And while nature's greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.
He also felt, in the last year of his life, that he was 'liquifying like an old Camembert'.
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