John Huston's beautifully haunting film of James Joyce' short story 'The Dead', from 'The Dubliners', is so faithfully rendered as to be almost a perfect replica in film of the story itself.
But there is one speech at the dinner table which is not in the story and I've never been able to discover...
In Normani's song "Motivation" (video slightly NSFW), there's a repeated line that goes "I'ma break you off, let me be your motivation".
For instance, the first stanza / chorus goes:
I'ma break you off, let me be your motivation
To stay and give it tonight
And, baby, turn around, let me give you...
I'm pretty sure I once (a long time ago) read a Joyce quote where he said that only twelve (or was it thirteen?) readers would ever fully understand Finnegan's Wake. But I couldn't convince Google to find a source for this. Do I remember correctly or did my memory make this up?
In the lines of one of Rilke's poems there is this sentence:
Fills now my cup, and past thought is my fulness thereof. I harden as a stone sets hard at its heart.
What does "Fills now my cup" mean?
In italian is traslated as "misfortune" or "misery".
Tolkien's legendary series The Lord of the Rings, is centered around a magical artifact known as the "One Ring" and part of this story recounts the tale of a Hobbit traveling to destroy this Ring. The ring was first "re-discovered", if you will, by Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit.
The One Ring is sho...
Views on whether or not tragedy provides a fulfilling end to a work have changed over the centuries and it has slipped in and out of popularity in contemporary works of a given period. Great literary classics, such as Romeo and Juliet, have always been respected regardless of prevailing literary ...
There's a common trope in Western fantasy that, up until now, I've sort of taken for granted: the "true name."
This is the idea that all things have true names that are somehow more closely linked to what the thing is, and that knowing it grants some degree of power over the thing. This has many...
I've recently seen the term "psychoanalysis" used a few times here on Literature Stack Exchange. Looking it up, I learned that it seems to be more a branch of psychology or philosophy than literature, however:
In the 21st century, psychoanalytic ideas are embedded in Western culture,[vague] espe...
Throughout the novel, Victor Frankenstein is horrified at the fact that he created his monster. However, he does not discuss any emotional or moral reservations towards the act of creating the monster and the monster itself. In fact, when he is talking with the monster in the Alps he says that
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