Better Than Friday - 121
Good evening everyone, hope this finds you well and you have a great weekend.
Thank you very much for your support.
I'm currently rereading Against Nature by Huysmans and I just want to mention that if you haven't had the pleasure, it's outstanding.
1. Book to be read - A Guardian Angel Recalls by Willem Frederik Hermans
This was recently sent to me from Archipelago Books. Very interesting premise.
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A Guardian Angel Recalls is a gripping and diabolical wartime novel by one of the most provocative Dutch writers of the twentieth-century.
Alberegt, a frenzied and lovelorn public prosecutor, speeds through Hook of Holland in his black Renault on May 9, 1940 – the eve of the German invasion of the Netherlands. Guiding his every move is a guardian angel.
With unflappable patience, the angel flits from the hood of the Renault to the rim of his windswept hat, determined to quell his every anxiety and doubt. The angel's momentary distraction, however, sets off a chain of events that spins a nightmarish web.
Alberegt's elusive companion serves both as narrator and meddlesome driver of the plot, though not without the interventions of a rotating cast of devils.
- Amazon
2. "I'm learning...The Devil knows no more than we poor fools"
Scene from Jan Svankmajer's 'Faust', which features exceptional animation.
Reminded of it because I'm (still) reading The Master and Margarita, which features tons of allusions to Goethe's Faust.
3. Mourn Your Dead land of the free, if you want to be a hero follow me
Heard this for the first time. Powerful. Von Ronk at his best.
4. A Greenaway Film Recommended to me recently
A recommendation from friend Tim, I love Michael Nyman's collaborations with Greenaway, I should read Shakespeare's The Tempest before I watch this though, as it's based on it.
5. Another film I've been meaning to watch that looks horrifying: Threads
This looks like a rough one.
What are the odds of capturing a photo of a black cat in a cemetery?
Comments (3)
Svankmajer's "Faust" is great.
"I must rejoice beyond the bounds of time, though the world might shudder at my joy, and in its coarseness know not what I mean."
Ah Threads, I recall watching it at school. Very scary stuff. I just remember from the film, many years after the attack, the people's speech had dramatically changed.