On Charles Dickens as “sentimental, theatrical, moralistic, and controlling” (Zadie Smith) — and the end of “Our Mutual Friend”. #111Words #CharlesDickens #OurMutualFriend #Novels #TheNewYorker #ZadieSmith #Sentimentality #Theatricality #Moralism #Controlling #Paranoia https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/08/on-charles-dickens-as-sentimental.html

A quotation from Meir, Golda:

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I’ve always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, of emotion, who conceal what they feel and are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/meir-golda/62760/

#quote #quotes #quotation #crying #emotion #feelings #laughing #laughter #repression #sentimentality #stoicism

@tom
#love #eternity #memory #sentimentality
If time and space make the heart grow fonder, we share a love so unbounded we can never step outside of it. The internet never forgets.

We're not going to logic and facts our way out of fascism. Please support labor movements and the work of activists, such as in the wake of George Floyd. Support antifa. These folks are on the bloody front line. Please just fight. Like our ancestors did.
@SinclairLewis

#Fascism #Liberalism #WolvesAtThe Door #TheNormsAreGone #Sentimentality

I'm not dissing on that at all. I'm just saying we are currently a bleeding island in a sea of terrible things.

Does anybody remember when workers and farmers literally died to remove the yoke of banks and capitalists. They formed the DFL. I remember, because I was told the stories.

#Fascism #Liberalism #WolvesAtThe Door #TheNormsAreGone #Sentimentality

It's been beyond horrible to watch some of the great social bastions of my youth, one by one, fall to proto-fascism. Wisconsin, prime example. People haven't studied the history so no idea what was lost there.

Which brings me to MN. Oh, yeah. Me and fam eventually rose to Garrison Keillor lib status there. A perpetual time-capsule of normalcy and nordish cultural memes to be sure.
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#Fascism #Liberalism #WolvesAtThe Door #TheNormsAreGone #Sentimentality

Chuffed that our studies of #XmasMovie|s arrived in time for upcoming Glühwein-Xmas movie nights 🤶
The book is stuffed with insightful chapters on #BridgetJones by @annieteaperky , Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel by @RelevanteLiteraturwissenschaft and many more. I wrote about how It's a Wonderful Life and #Gremlins construct and deconstruct Xmas #sentimentality.
Gremlins might be my favourite Xmas film - what's yours?
@filmstudies @litstudies