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@troublewithwords

"Anything good I read makes me want to write."

Oh, beautifully said. This is true for me too, in my academic writing. Except that, sadly, "it makes me want to write" does not always translate into "it makes me write" ... ! :-) The procrastinator's lot.

And thank you for the EM Forster link. These stories are new to me.

I love the faux naïveté of this stylistic declaration from the first para of Forster's _The Story of a Panic_:

"I confess at once that I am a plain, simple man, with no pretensions to literary style. Still, I do flatter myself that I can tell a story without exaggerating, and I have therefore decided to give an unbiased account of the extraordinary events of eight years ago."

#writing #procrastination #EMForster #style

@troublewithwords

"Anything good I read makes me want to write."

Oh, beautifully said. This is true for me too, in my academic writing. Except that, sadly, "it makes me want to write" does not always translate into "it makes me write" ... ! :-) The procrastinator's lot.

And thank you for the EM Forster link. These stories are new to me.

I love the faux naïveté of this stylistic declaration from the first para of Forster's _The Story of a Panic_:

"I confess at once that I am a plain, simple man, with no pretensions to literary style. Still, I do flatter myself that I can tell a story without exaggerating, and I have therefore decided to give an unbiased account of the extraordinary events of eight years ago."

#writing #procrastination #EMForster #style

@troublewithwords

"Anything good I read makes me want to write."

Oh, beautifully said. This is true for me too, in my academic writing. Except that, sadly, "it makes me want to write" does not always translate into "it makes me write" ... ! :-) The procrastinator's lot.

And thank you for the EM Forster link. These stories are new to me.

I love the faux naïveté of this stylistic declaration from the first para of Forster's _The Story of a Panic_:

"I confess at once that I am a plain, simple man, with no pretensions to literary style. Still, I do flatter myself that I can tell a story without exaggerating, and I have therefore decided to give an unbiased account of the extraordinary events of eight years ago."

#writing #procrastination #EMForster #style

@troublewithwords

"Anything good I read makes me want to write."

Oh, beautifully said. This is true for me too, in my academic writing. Except that, sadly, "it makes me want to write" does not always translate into "it makes me write" ... ! :-) The procrastinator's lot.

And thank you for the EM Forster link. These stories are new to me.

I love the faux naïveté of this stylistic declaration from the first para of Forster's _The Story of a Panic_:

"I confess at once that I am a plain, simple man, with no pretensions to literary style. Still, I do flatter myself that I can tell a story without exaggerating, and I have therefore decided to give an unbiased account of the extraordinary events of eight years ago."

#writing #procrastination #EMForster #style

@troublewithwords

"Anything good I read makes me want to write."

Oh, beautifully said. This is true for me too, in my academic writing. Except that, sadly, "it makes me want to write" does not always translate into "it makes me write" ... ! :-) The procrastinator's lot.

And thank you for the EM Forster link. These stories are new to me.

I love the faux naïveté of this stylistic declaration from the first para of Forster's _The Story of a Panic_:

"I confess at once that I am a plain, simple man, with no pretensions to literary style. Still, I do flatter myself that I can tell a story without exaggerating, and I have therefore decided to give an unbiased account of the extraordinary events of eight years ago."

#writing #procrastination #EMForster #style

E.M. Forster: Novelista y escritor inglés

E.M. Forster, un renombrado novelista y escritor inglés, falleció el 7 de junio de 1970, dejando un legado de obras literarias que continúan cautivando a los lectores hasta el día de hoy. Nacido el 1 de enero de 1879, Forster es mejor conocido por sus novelas, particularmente 'Una habitación con vistas' (1908), 'El final de la affair' (1910), y 'Un pasaje a la India' (19…

#Akerix #IA #AI #EMForster
https://akerix.com/on-this-day/06-07-e-m-forster-1970

E.M. Forster: English Novelist and Writer

E.M. Forster, a renowned English novelist and writer, passed away on June 7, 1970, leaving behind a legacy of literary works that continue to captivate readers to this day. Born on January 1, 1879, Forster is best known for his novels, particularly 'A Room with a View' (1908), 'Howards End' (1910), and 'A Passage to India' (1924), which examine class differences and hypo…

#Akerix #IA #AI #EMForster
https://akerix.com/on-this-day/06-07-e-m-forster-1970

A Lighthouse for Dark Times

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A Lighthouse for Dark Times

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A Lighthouse for Dark Times

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#ARoomWithAView by #EMForster

Breaking free from Edwardian constraints! A woman finds passion and independence between Italy and the English countryside. 🇮🇹🪟🌳

Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-room-with-view-by-e-m-forster.html

#Sandition by #JaneAusten

Austen's final, unfinished work. A vibrant glimpse into a changing seaside world of health-seekers and entrepreneurs. 🌊🏖️👒

Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2019/02/sandition-by-jane-austen.html

Happy new year!

EM Forster, English author best known for his novels A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924) was born on this date in 1879. 10 facts about him:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/12/1-january-em-forster.html

#BirthAnniversary #EMForster #Writers

Happy new year!

EM Forster, English author best known for his novels A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924) was born on this date in 1879. 10 facts about him:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/12/1-january-em-forster.html

#BirthAnniversary #EMForster #Writers

Happy new year!

EM Forster, English author best known for his novels A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924) was born on this date in 1879. 10 facts about him:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/12/1-january-em-forster.html

#BirthAnniversary #EMForster #Writers

Happy new year!

EM Forster, English author best known for his novels A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924) was born on this date in 1879. 10 facts about him:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/12/1-january-em-forster.html

#BirthAnniversary #EMForster #Writers

Happy new year!

EM Forster, English author best known for his novels A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924) was born on this date in 1879. 10 facts about him:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/12/1-january-em-forster.html

#BirthAnniversary #EMForster #Writers

Well. That made me have a Think.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7308755085

#reading #bookstodon #Maurice #EMForster

E.M. Foster: Maurice

Well. That made me have a Think.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5cb46e08-e2a1-4157-af4a-5b50be62fc16

#reading #bookstodon #Maurice #EMForster

E.M. Foster: Maurice

Well. That made me have a Think.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5cb46e08-e2a1-4157-af4a-5b50be62fc16

#reading #bookstodon #Maurice #EMForster

Finished reading #EMForster 's 1908 romance. There were parts I really liked but some of the characters feel much more alive than others - with George very much in the latter category - and while Lucy's 'muddle' is quite nicely drawn I would have liked to see her do a bit more than follow other people's instructions all story long. A classic in its way but not really for me. I haven't seen the adaptation that the cover advertises but it does have a remarkably good cast! #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Finished reading #EMForster 's 1908 romance. There were parts I really liked but some of the characters feel much more alive than others - with George very much in the latter category - and while Lucy's 'muddle' is quite nicely drawn I would have liked to see her do a bit more than follow other people's instructions all story long. A classic in its way but not really for me. I haven't seen the adaptation that the cover advertises but it does have a remarkably good cast! #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Finished reading #EMForster 's 1908 romance. There were parts I really liked but some of the characters feel much more alive than others - with George very much in the latter category - and while Lucy's 'muddle' is quite nicely drawn I would have liked to see her do a bit more than follow other people's instructions all story long. A classic in its way but not really for me. I haven't seen the adaptation that the cover advertises but it does have a remarkably good cast! #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Finished reading #EMForster 's 1908 romance. There were parts I really liked but some of the characters feel much more alive than others - with George very much in the latter category - and while Lucy's 'muddle' is quite nicely drawn I would have liked to see her do a bit more than follow other people's instructions all story long. A classic in its way but not really for me. I haven't seen the adaptation that the cover advertises but it does have a remarkably good cast! #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Finished reading #EMForster 's 1908 romance. There were parts I really liked but some of the characters feel much more alive than others - with George very much in the latter category - and while Lucy's 'muddle' is quite nicely drawn I would have liked to see her do a bit more than follow other people's instructions all story long. A classic in its way but not really for me. I haven't seen the adaptation that the cover advertises but it does have a remarkably good cast! #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Died this Day:

Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). His short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) is often viewed as the beginning of technological dystopian fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster

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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

There is a certain amount of kindness, just as there is a certain amount of light … We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine

E.M. Forster, A Room With A View, Pg 152

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUDVUZZyA0M

From Ulrich Baer’s collection of Rilke’s letters loc 673:

There is only a single, urgent task: to attach oneself someplace to nature, to that which is strong, striving and bright with unreserved readiness, and then to move forward in one’s efforts without any calculation or guile, even when engaged in the most trivial and mundane activities. Each time we thus reach out with joy, each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and the one following but also alter the past within us, weave it into the pattern of our existence, and dissolve the foreign body of pain whose exact composition we ultimately do not know.

From James Baldwin’s final essay in Nothing Personal:

One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light. It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is a light. What the light reveals is danger, and what it demands is faith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf_zVzvYWuw

I am transforming
I am vibrating
Look at me now

#commitment #EMForster #JamesBaldwin #Lacan #life #presence #psychoanalysis #Rilke #void

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

There is a certain amount of kindness, just as there is a certain amount of light … We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine

E.M. Forster, A Room With A View, Pg 152

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUDVUZZyA0M

From Ulrich Baer’s collection of Rilke’s letters loc 673:

There is only a single, urgent task: to attach oneself someplace to nature, to that which is strong, striving and bright with unreserved readiness, and then to move forward in one’s efforts without any calculation or guile, even when engaged in the most trivial and mundane activities. Each time we thus reach out with joy, each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and the one following but also alter the past within us, weave it into the pattern of our existence, and dissolve the foreign body of pain whose exact composition we ultimately do not know.

From James Baldwin’s final essay in Nothing Personal:

One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light. It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is a light. What the light reveals is danger, and what it demands is faith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf_zVzvYWuw

I am transforming
I am vibrating
I am glowing
I am flying
Look at me now

#commitment #EMForster #JamesBaldwin #Lacan #life #presence #psychoanalysis #Rilke #void

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

There is a certain amount of kindness, just as there is a certain amount of light … We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine

E.M. Forster, A Room With A View, Pg 152

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUDVUZZyA0M

From Ulrich Baer’s collection of Rilke’s letters loc 673:

There is only a single, urgent task: to attach oneself someplace to nature, to that which is strong, striving and bright with unreserved readiness, and then to move forward in one’s efforts without any calculation or guile, even when engaged in the most trivial and mundane activities. Each time we thus reach out with joy, each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and the one following but also alter the past within us, weave it into the pattern of our existence, and dissolve the foreign body of pain whose exact composition we ultimately do not know.

From James Baldwin’s final essay in Nothing Personal:

One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light. It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is a light. What the light reveals is danger, and what it demands is faith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf_zVzvYWuw

I am transforming
I am vibrating
I am glowing
I am flying
Look at me now

#commitment #EMForster #JamesBaldwin #Lacan #life #presence #psychoanalysis #Rilke #void

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

There is a certain amount of kindness, just as there is a certain amount of light … We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine

E.M. Forster, A Room With A View, Pg 152

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUDVUZZyA0M

From Ulrich Baer’s collection of Rilke’s letters loc 673:

There is only a single, urgent task: to attach oneself someplace to nature, to that which is strong, striving and bright with unreserved readiness, and then to move forward in one’s efforts without any calculation or guile, even when engaged in the most trivial and mundane activities. Each time we thus reach out with joy, each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and the one following but also alter the past within us, weave it into the pattern of our existence, and dissolve the foreign body of pain whose exact composition we ultimately do not know.

From James Baldwin’s final essay in Nothing Personal:

One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light. It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is a light. What the light reveals is danger, and what it demands is faith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf_zVzvYWuw

I am transforming
I am vibrating
Look at me now

#commitment #EMForster #JamesBaldwin #Lacan #life #presence #psychoanalysis #Rilke #void

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

There is a certain amount of kindness, just as there is a certain amount of light … We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine

E.M. Forster, A Room With A View, Pg 152

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUDVUZZyA0M

From Ulrich Baer’s collection of Rilke’s letters loc 673:

There is only a single, urgent task: to attach oneself someplace to nature, to that which is strong, striving and bright with unreserved readiness, and then to move forward in one’s efforts without any calculation or guile, even when engaged in the most trivial and mundane activities. Each time we thus reach out with joy, each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and the one following but also alter the past within us, weave it into the pattern of our existence, and dissolve the foreign body of pain whose exact composition we ultimately do not know.

From James Baldwin’s final essay in Nothing Personal:

One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light. It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is a light. What the light reveals is danger, and what it demands is faith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf_zVzvYWuw

I am transforming
I am vibrating
Look at me now

#commitment #EMForster #JamesBaldwin #Lacan #life #presence #psychoanalysis #Rilke #void

@ChrisMayLA6

As a famous British writer wrote: “Only connect.”

As in… join the dots…
😐

#EMForster

@ChrisMayLA6

As a famous British writer wrote: “Only connect.”

As in… join the dots…
😐

#EMForster

@ChrisMayLA6

As a famous British writer wrote: “Only connect.”

As in… join the dots…
😐

#EMForster

@ChrisMayLA6

As a famous British writer wrote: “Only connect.”

As in… join the dots…
😐

#EMForster

@ChrisMayLA6

As a famous British writer wrote: “Only connect.”

As in… join the dots…
😐

#EMForster

Dora Carrington (29 de Março de 1893 – 11 de Março de 1932), pintora e decoradora inglesa.

E.M. Forster, 1920.

#art #doracarrington #emforster

Dora Carrington (29 de Março de 1893 – 11 de Março de 1932), pintora e decoradora inglesa.

E.M. Forster, 1920.

#art #doracarrington #emforster

Dora Carrington (29 de Março de 1893 – 11 de Março de 1932), pintora e decoradora inglesa.

E.M. Forster, 1920.

#art #doracarrington #emforster

Dora Carrington (29 de Março de 1893 – 11 de Março de 1932), pintora e decoradora inglesa.

E.M. Forster, 1920.

#art #doracarrington #emforster

Dora Carrington (29 de Março de 1893 – 11 de Março de 1932), pintora e decoradora inglesa.

E.M. Forster, 1920.

#art #doracarrington #emforster

#10authors5bookseach

#HermanMelville
#HenryJames
#PercivalEverett
#ToniMorrison
#CharlesDickens
#PhilipRoth
#E.D.E.N.Southworth
#WilliamFaulkner
#EMForster
#MarkTwain

#Litstudies
#Bookstodon

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#MerchantIvory production of #EMForster with #EmmaThompson, #HelenaBonhamCarter, #JamesWilby, #VanessaRedgrave + #AnthonyHopkins. Nominated for 9 #AcademyAwards (winning 3) + winner of #BAFTA #BestFilmAward

#HowardsEnd (1992) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104454/

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#MerchantIvory #film with #JamesWilby, #RupertGraves, and #HughGrant. Adaptation of #EMForster novel

#Maurice (1987) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093512/

“She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”
Never ceases to amaze me how immediate and necessary #EMForster is. #LitStudies #LitScholars #modernism 📚🎓

Portraits of E.M. Forster

The author of novels A Room with a View, Howard's End, Maurice and Passage to India ... The writer once criticized his own abilities:

"I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be."

1) Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1920
2) Cecil Beaton, 1965
3) Howard Coster, 1938

#emforster #edwardmorganforster #portrait #portraits #ladyottolinemorrell #cecilbeaton #howardcoster #photography #portraitoftheauthor #novelist #roomwithaview #passagetoindia #howardsend #maurice #author #writer #authorquote

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#MerchantIvory production of #EMForster with #EmmaThompson, #HelenaBonhamCarter, #JamesWilby, #VanessaRedgrave + #AnthonyHopkins. Nominated for 9 #AcademyAwards (winning 3) + winner of #BAFTA #BestFilmAward

#HowardsEnd (1992) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104454/

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#MerchantIvory production of #EMForster with #EmmaThompson, #HelenaBonhamCarter, #JamesWilby, #VanessaRedgrave + #AnthonyHopkins. Nominated for 9 #AcademyAwards (winning 3) + winner of #BAFTA #BestFilmAward

#HowardsEnd (1992) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104454/

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#MerchantIvory production of #EMForster with #EmmaThompson, #HelenaBonhamCarter, #JamesWilby, #VanessaRedgrave + #AnthonyHopkins. Nominated for 9 #AcademyAwards (winning 3) + winner of #BAFTA #BestFilmAward

#HowardsEnd (1992) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104454/

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#MerchantIvory adaptation of the #EMForster novel w/ #HelenaBonhamCarter, #MaggieSmith, #JudiDench, #JulianSands, #DanielDayLewis + #RupertGraves. Nominated for 8 #AcademyAwards

#ARoomwithaView (1985) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091867/

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#MerchantIvory adaptation of the #EMForster novel w/ #HelenaBonhamCarter, #MaggieSmith, #JudiDench, #JulianSands, #DanielDayLewis + #RupertGraves. Nominated for 8 #AcademyAwards

#ARoomwithaView (1985) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091867/