Phlarckent

fakescience:

What if this engine of bones is a man’s entirety?

Intersections of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, 1984, and the LotR movie trilogy:

• The myth of social or cultural determinism; 
• The collision/isolation of states and people;
• Totalitarian groups;
• Individualism; 
• Colonialism;
• War;
• Sexual tension;
• Collective amnesia;
• Memoirs;
• Male protagonists (what does a woman’s entirety consist in?);
• (Potential for) Theme music;
• The (semantic, emotional, literary) impossibility of returning home.

Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes. Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author” (via bookoflead)

(via proustitute)