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The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
I cant believe he pulled this one off!!
A beautiful interpolation of Mrs. Dalloway, just two incandescent classics to remember the sprawl of the twentieth century by. Cunningham’s reincarnative time and trait tricks are on full display here and seem to work more seamlessly than they did in Specimen Days, which felt a bit more forced and awkward. This is just fantastic; everything resonates, even the integrated flairs of Virginia Woolf’s syntax, the way the introduction and the Borges/Woolf epigraphs seem to suggest that this is all absorbed in the dream-like consciousness she occupies after her death.
An incredible presentation of the liminal paradoxes we occupy on the full spectrum of being: how a single day contains in one moment utter despair, disconnect, and futility, terrible loneliness; and in the next, there is illumination, contentment, a holistic sense of an ordered fabric in the universe that binds us all together.
“It could be a good day; it needs to be treated carefully.”
“It will serve as the afternoon’s manifestation of the central mystery itself, the elusive brightness that shines from the edges of certain dreams; the brightness which, when we awaken, is already fading from our minds, and which we rise in the hope of finding, perhaps today, this new day in which anything might happen, anything at all.”
“Beauty and dignity were illusions fostered by the company of children, sustained for the benefit of children.”
“What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy’s other half.”
“Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later, to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk, the anticipation of dinner and a book.”
“It isn’t failure but it requires more of you, the whole effort does; just being present and grateful; being happy (terrible word).”
Two incredible twists as well.
1) Woolf’s Septimus traits reincarnating in the 1990s Richard and inverting the parallel timelines of Clarissa and Mrs. Dalloway
2) Mrs. Brown……!!!!
A beautiful interpolation of Mrs. Dalloway, just two incandescent classics to remember the sprawl of the twentieth century by. Cunningham’s reincarnative time and trait tricks are on full display here and seem to work more seamlessly than they did in Specimen Days, which felt a bit more forced and awkward. This is just fantastic; everything resonates, even the integrated flairs of Virginia Woolf’s syntax, the way the introduction and the Borges/Woolf epigraphs seem to suggest that this is all absorbed in the dream-like consciousness she occupies after her death.
An incredible presentation of the liminal paradoxes we occupy on the full spectrum of being: how a single day contains in one moment utter despair, disconnect, and futility, terrible loneliness; and in the next, there is illumination, contentment, a holistic sense of an ordered fabric in the universe that binds us all together.
“It could be a good day; it needs to be treated carefully.”
“It will serve as the afternoon’s manifestation of the central mystery itself, the elusive brightness that shines from the edges of certain dreams; the brightness which, when we awaken, is already fading from our minds, and which we rise in the hope of finding, perhaps today, this new day in which anything might happen, anything at all.”
“Beauty and dignity were illusions fostered by the company of children, sustained for the benefit of children.”
“What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy’s other half.”
“Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later, to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk, the anticipation of dinner and a book.”
“It isn’t failure but it requires more of you, the whole effort does; just being present and grateful; being happy (terrible word).”
Two incredible twists as well.
1) Woolf’s Septimus traits reincarnating in the 1990s Richard and inverting the parallel timelines of Clarissa and Mrs. Dalloway
2) Mrs. Brown……!!!!