This fact about E.M. Forster really slaps hard 🤭 #EMForster

@GW Note also; EM Forster's classic novella, "The Machine Stops".

#TheMachineStops #EMForster

""Yes, I suppose we ought to be going," was her reply."
middle sentence of "A room with a view" by #EMForster on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-140-01059-6-middle-sentence.php

In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel.
– E.M. Forster

#EMForster #quoteoftheday #1Aprile

"When I arrived at Waterloo - no, I'll go back before that, because I'm anxious you should know everything from the first."
middle sentence of "Howards End" by #EMForster on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-140-18080-0-middle-sentence.php

“In #Dostoevsky the characters and situations always stand for more than themselves; infinity attends them; though yet they remain individuals they expand to embrace it and summon it to embrace them; one can apply to them the saying of St. Catherine of Siena that God is in the soul and the soul is in God as the sea is in the fish and the fish is in the sea.”
~ E.M. Forster, in Aspects of the #Novel
#EMForster #Dostoyevski #StCatherineOfSiena #mysticism #literature

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘹 𝘓𝘰𝘥𝘨𝘦, 28, 𝘉𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘩𝘢𝘮 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘙𝘰𝘢𝘥, 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘯, 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘶𝘻𝘻𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯-𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦...

This is interesting: "The Celestial Omnibus" short story by E.M. Forster (1912).

https://monadnock.net/forster/omnibus.html

It really reminds me, in theme, tone, and treatment, of stories by Neil Gaiman, which is not something I expected from Forster (but of course, I'm absolutely no expert on Forster, though I've read several of his books).

Anyway, I enjoyed it, and it is interesting to wonder: if Gaiman were writing 100+ years ago, what would it look / sound like?

#literature #EMForster #Forster #NeilGaiman #Gaiman #story #ShortStory #vintage #CelestialOmnibus #OdeToHeaven #Shelley #poetry #classics #fantasy #CharactersFromLiterature #1912

Searching a bit I see it's been adapted as a play at least once. (https://www.theatre22.org/)

“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.”
~ #EMForster in #HowardsEnd

#OnlyConnect

How odd #learning strategies can be. My #mind works not laterally in the sense of thinking of a particular problem ‘outside the box’ as they say. Rather I engage in a myriad of #contexts (#economic, #literary, #history, #science, #cogsci, #aesthetics, #philosophy) simultaneously, exploring meticulously for links. This should ill-suit me to philosophy. Well, no one ever ever said ‘Only solve’.

——— ‘Only Connect’, #EMForster

“You care for me a little bit, I do think, but I can't hang all my life on a little bit.” ~ E.M. Forster, Maurice

#EMForster #Maurice

#EMForster

I know not everyone out there is currently obsessed with the writings of #EMForster, as I am, but I just discovered this online treasure trove of scholarly articles about him, so here you go. From the Polish Journal of #EnglishStudies:

https://pjes.edu.pl/issues/7-2-2021/

"There was nothing to distract him this time; his sentimentality had died, so had his anxiety for the family honour."
middle sentence of "Where Angels fear to tread" by #EMForster on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-140-47377-3-middle-sentence.php

I think I have a new literary crush: Adam Berwick, the kind, introspective bachelor farmer in “The #JaneAusten Society,” the charming and, at times, deeply moving novel by Natalie Jenner.

Adam joins my other fictional crushes: #AlecScudder from #Maurice by #EMForster (he was played by Rupert Graves in the #MerchantIvory film version), Roderick Brooke from the Sybil Ingram novels by Amanda DeWees, and Simon Kincaide from the Badlands series of novels by Morgan Brice (Gail Martin).

"He heard Maurice turn out the electric light and sit down with a thud."
middle sentence of "Maurice" by #EMForster on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-14-003515-5-middle-sentence.php

My page on Tumblr features many of the same posts as my Mastodon and Facebook pages, but also a lot of re-blogs from #DarkAcademia and #Victorian #Gothic sites - and a LOT of re-blogs from Tumblr sites about #EMForster and the novel/movie #Maurice.

https://www.tumblr.com/shadowhaunted

"They hurried back to the carriage to close the windows lest the smuts should get into Harriet's eyes."
last sentence of "Where Angels fear to tread" by #EMForster on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-140-47377-3-last-sentence.php

#Books I’ve #read multiple times, sometimes in different (or annotated) editions:

#Dracula by #BramStoker
The Picture of #DorianGray by #OscarWilde
#Frankenstein by #MaryShelley
Leaves of Grass by #WaltWhitman
Howl by #AllenGinsberg
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. #Heinlein
The #Hobbit by J.R.R. #Tolkien

Currently obsessed with #Maurice by #EMForster; thinking about reading it again.

@nidgethompson #EMForster, who I’ve never read, apparently said ‘Only connect’. Books connect exponentially. That, in turn, became a rallying cry for #cognitive #architectural #engineers (eg. D. #Rumelhart, P. #Smolensky, &c) wanting to exploit more the neuroanatomy or #hardware?) of the #biological 🧠 rather than the idea (eg #Fodor) that discrete parts of the brain run #software and the further idea that thinking is essentially the latter (a long standing research programme).

Höre mir gerade mit wachsender Begeisterung die Hörspielfassung von E.M. Forsters geradezu prophetischer SciFi-Story "Die Maschine steht still" an. Schon 1909 hat er Facebook & Co. nebst der gesellschaftlichen Folgen vorhergesagt, und lässt diese konsequent eskalieren. Ich hatte die Vorlage bereits gelesen, diese Umsetzung ist wirklich hervorragend gelungen! 👌

https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/ndr-hoerspiel-box/die-maschine-steht-still/ndr-kultur/12219851/

#EMForster #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SocialMedia #Bookstodon #Hörspiel