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"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."
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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
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Well. That made me have a Think.
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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
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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
I am glowing
I am flying
Look at me now#commitment #EMForster #JamesBaldwin #Lacan #life #presence #psychoanalysis #Rilke #void
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Dora Carrington (29 de Março de 1893 – 11 de Março de 1932), pintora e decoradora inglesa.
E.M. Forster, 1920.
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🚨 new book alert! 🚨 4 new books on #Modernism
Facing the uncertainty of Modernism, the treatment of #spectrality & #ghosts in works by #JosephConrad, #EMForster, #MaryButts, & #ElizabethBowen is analysed by Stephen Ross: "There is hope in these ghosts, not resignation" -
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-- E. M. Forster⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EMForster #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
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Do you have any favorite quotes about #writing ? I'm fond of these two by #tonimorrison and #emforster https://samanthadunawaybryant.blogspot.com/2024/11/can-i-quote-you-on-that-open-book-blog.html
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#MerchantIvory production of #EMForster with #EmmaThompson, #HelenaBonhamCarter, #JamesWilby, #VanessaRedgrave + #AnthonyHopkins. Nominated for 9 #AcademyAwards (winning 3) + winner of #BAFTA #BestFilmAward
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#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/
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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
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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) Roger Fry, 1911
2) Dora Carrington, 1924/5
3) Philip Whichelo#emforster #edwardmorganforster #portrait #portraits #rogerfry #doracarrington #philipwhichelo #art #artists #portraitoftheauthor #novelist #roomwithaview #passagetoindia #howardsend #maurice #author #writer #authorquote
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#Documentary #film on writer #EMForster, author of #RoomWithaView, #Maurice, #HowardsEnd, #PassagetoIndia + #TheLongestJourney
#EMForsterHisLongestJourney (TV Movie 2019) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13915156/
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#MerchantIvory #film with #JamesWilby, #RupertGraves, and #HughGrant. Adaptation of #EMForster novel
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#CharlesSturridge directed #film adaptation of #EMForster starring #HelenaBonhamCarter, #RupertGraves, #HelenMirren, #JudyDavis and #GiovanniGuidelli
#WhereAngelsFeartoTread (1991) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103243/
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100 years ago #OTD was the date of the 1st publication of #EMForster's "A Passage to India". Our collection not only offers you dozens of critical analyses by renowned scholars, but also a 1st edition - as the #exlibris reveals, previously owned by #MadeleineLEngle!
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Another #review for the #shortStory The Machine Stops, by #EMForster. A truly ahead of its time story that is scarily accurate to what we live today.
Also, some #thoughts about today too...
This is day 35 of #100DaysToOffload, and post 3 for #WeblogPoMo2024
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“A Passage to India” on Its 100th Birthday | Los Angeles Review of Books
#bookstodon #LiteraryHistory #APassageToIndia #EMForsterhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-passage-to-india-on-its-100th-birthday/
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The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster
First published in the Oxford and Cambridge Review, November 1909https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lhjd7
https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf
#sciencefiction #bbc #outoftheunknown #emforster #retrofuturism #propheticfiction #committeeofthemachine
