HENRY JAMES ON A BICYCLE!
(My annual Henry James read was so bad - the awakening! - that I couldn't leave it at that. Went back to The Book Exchange for another dose) #henryjames #books #amsterdam #forgotmybag #bycicle

“Your first care must be to ignore the very dream of haste, walking everywhere very slowly and very much at random.” ~ Henry James, writing of his first visit to Perugia

#flâneur #HenryJames #Perugia

“It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.”
#henryjames #london

More #books from last week: Xunzi for our slow reading group (we literally read together, one after the other in turn. After a year and a half we finished Augustine, I'm looking forward to Xunzi), and two books from the library. I'm thinking a lot about #henryjames In the Cage these days. It was only very late that I found out that #DeleuzeGuattari have a whole chapter about it.

Oh, verpasst: gestern war der 180. Geburtstag von Henry James! (Ist nicht meine Ausgabe der Terminations, die ist nicht so hübsch, aber sollte man lesen: vier Erzählungen, die diskret um den Tod herumscharwenzeln.) #books #henryjames #buecher

Singing to #HenryJames and gotta love his utter look of boredom #Caturday

Stare a Roma e non far mai una passeggiata a piedi, sarebbe, mi sembra, poco divertente.
– Henry James

#HenryJames #quoteoftheday #17Marzo

Do you have any secret long-term projects at work as a response to your employer giving you so little to do? Are you building a ship in a bottle that you're hiding in your desk? Working on an extremely subtle performance art installation in the break room? Learning Classical Hittite? Reading your way through the complete works of Henry James on your laptop? #BadEmployers #HenryJames #ClassicalHittite #PerformanceArt

I made the mistake of watching the final scenes of 'The Haunting of Bly Manor' (saw the series when it came out). Damn it. 💔

"The gardener said the words she'd heard those years ago.

She willed it with everything she had. 'You, me, us. US!'

'Take me with you,' she cried in her heart. 'Take me. Drag me down like you did the others.'

But the lady in the lake was different now. The lady in the lake was also Dani.

And Dani wouldn't. Dani would never.

In fact, no one would ever be taken again. And no one has been taken to this day."

#TheHauntingOfBlyManor #DaniAndJamie #HenryJames #MikeFlanagan #Netflix #Gothic #Sapphic #LoveStory

“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.” #HenryJames
#literature #LitStudies @litstudies

Se non fossi venuto a Roma, non mi sarei mai innalzato, e se non mi fossi innalzato, non sarei caduto.
– Henry James

#HenryJames #quoteoftheday #8Marzo

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.
― Henry James

#HenryJames #quoteoftheday #15Febbraio

Why support independent booksellers? Because they are most likely to provide this kind of literary surprise: Henry James’s first published novel(la); and George Eliot’s final work. Never mind that I’d never read them before; I’d never even heard of these books - so two pleasant surprises at once. Thank you, the Picture Book Shop in Leek!
#HenryJames. #WatchAndWard. #GeorgeEliot. #TheophrastusSuch. #PictureBookShop. #LeekStaffordshire
#bookstodon

The Guido Crepax comic that really blew me away in 2022 was his superb 1920s-set surreal and erotic adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw.

As with his adaptation of Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Crepax takes erotic elements that are only hinted at in the original story and pus the spotlight on them.

It's included in the Complete Crepax volume Evil Spells.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2022/11/guido-crepax-evil-spells.html

#GuidoCrepax #comics #europeancomics #HenryJames #ghoststories

I haven't rewatched "The Snowmen" in a long time, and I'm really enjoying the Turn of the Screw vibes.

#DoctorWho #HenryJames #GothicHorror

Stare a Roma e non far mai una passeggiata a piedi, sarebbe, mi sembra, poco divertente.
– Henry James

#HenryJames #Roma #quoteoftheday

A letter or two a day keeps my amanuensis’s boredom away!

#HenryJames

Here's the #postcard; the video includes me rambling about not having a #podcast guest for next week's show, if you want to subject yourself to that, too

#books #bookstodon #HenryJames #Whistler #AwkwardAge

#FilmMasterpiece #ClassicFilms #CineClásico #AdaptacionesDeLibros #FilmsAdaptedFromBooks #HenryJames #WashingtonSquare #LiteratureInMovies #Movies #Cine #Cinema

Olivia de Havilland & Montgomery Clift en La Heredera (The Heiress, William Wyler, 1949)

“You may walk out of the noon-day dusk of Trafalgar Square in November, and in one of the chambers of the National Gallery, see the Family of Darius rustling and pleading and weeping at the feet of Alexander. Alexander is a beautiful young Venetian in crimson pantaloons,and the picture sends a glow into the cold London twilight.”
#HenryJames

#paoloveronese
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