#Froth on the Daydream

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L'écume des jours (Froth on the Daydream) (Boris Vian) "the story of a wealthy young man named Colin and his love for Chloe, a girl dying of a water lily in her lung. the effects of which, besides a cough, are largely to make her beautifully pale and languid."

Eater of Wasps (Trevor Baxendale) "Synopsis: "The TARDIS lands in the sleepy English village of Marpling, as calm and peaceful as any other village in the 1930s. Or so it would seem at first glance. But the village is about to get a rude awakening.

The Doctor and his friends discover they aren't the only time-travellers in the area: a crack commando team is also prowling the Wiltshire countryside, charged with the task of recovering an appallingly dangerous artefact from the far future — and they have orders to destroy the entire area, should anything go wrong.

And then there are the wasps… mutant killers bringing terror and death in equal measure. What is their purpose? How can they be stopped? And who will be their next victim?

In the race to stop the horror that has been unleashed, the Doctor must outwit both the temporal hit squad, who want him out of the way, and the local police — who want him for murder. "

Why it's Corruption: Look at the cover. Look at the author. This book is so full of body horror it's incredible. There's a dude filled with mutant killer wasps, who is slowly turning into a GIANT mutant killer wasp that is also filling OTHER people with mutant killer wasps. And there's also a whole bunch of family drama and toxic love vis-a-vis possessing people with wasps to make them your 'children'. Also, the Doctor uses fire extinguishers to destroy the possessed wasps, a la Jane Prentiss!"

[the-mouse-joust]

ROUND 1 SIDE A: FLOWERS AND LOSS

LEFT: Algernon from Flowers for Algernon Description: "Charlie’s little buddy." (About the book: "I think I've never cried that much in my life before.") Algernon is a laboratory mouse who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence and is very close to Charlie, a human who also went through the procedure.

RIGHT: The Mouse from Froth on the Daydream (L'Écume des jours) Description: As things get bleaker in Colin's home in which the mouse resides, this mouse tries its best to bring some light back into the home. But as things get worse the grief might ultimately be too much to bear...

[dijeh]

The mouth organ of À rebours vs the pianocktail of L'Écume des jours

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Chloe and Alyssum from Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian

[headfullof-ideas]

Because I love messing with people, and was thinking out some future fighting scenes featuring dragon on dragon combat, here’s some of the characters/real life animals I pulled inspiration from…

If it’s got wings, it’s probably been used for reference, even if subconsciously. Some of these are referencing specific moves or sequences, but everyone here has been used for reference or inspiration.

[madame-fear]

there’s nothing i both adore and wholeheartedly despise with the entirety of my soul than being in love

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

L'Écume des jours (2013, Michel Gondry)

28/04/2024

[therantingsage]

My tastes are very specific and predictable </3 there's probably more than this but I'm forgetting atm

[utterlyazriel]

Can you do more with the how long have I searched story ?

hi lovely anon :) i didn’t have anything else in mind if i’m being honest (i rlly just wrote that scratch my azriel itch HAHA) but if you have any ideas, you can certainly let me know! just like… how the dinner goes?

[tvrningout-a]

i'm still obsessed with the idea of two characters reuniting and just!! the absolute faith that they'd be together again!! the overwhelming emotion of " you're here -- you're breathing right in front of me, in my arms. you aren't a dream or an illusion but flesh and blood which i can cling to. and i will. i'll hold you until i'm ready to let go again, until i know you won't be ripped from my arms. here we'll stay, hearts pounding and tears falling for the right reasons this time, and all is well. all is well now that i've found you. "

i'm very not normal about this alright :' ))))

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Caterpillars (E.F. Benson) "In the beautiful Villa Cascana on the Italian Riviera, all is not as it seems. Why does the hostess leave a perfectly charming bedroom unoccupied? Why does Arthur Inglis present our nameless narrator with a caterpillar in a cardboard pill-box one lunchtime? And rather more bizarrely, why do luminous, bloated and gigantic versions of this creature haunt his dreams? Or could it possibly be that he is wide awake?"

SPOILERS BELOW CUT

L'écume des jours (Froth on the Daydream) (Boris Vian) "the story of a wealthy young man named Colin and his love for Chloe, a girl dying of a water lily in her lung. the effects of which, besides a cough, are largely to make her beautifully pale and languid."

At the end of the story, the narrator is visiting the Stanleys in England. It turns out that Inglis is riddled with cancer. No operation is possible to save him. Mrs. Stanley can’t help but thinking he caught it at the villa even though she took precautions to clean that vacant room and have no one stay there. It seems that someone had died of cancer in that room a year before. The notion of cancer as something infectious may, given the state of medicine at the time, been prevalent (and some cancers are caused by infectious agents).

I don't think that I need to explain why caterpillars either supernaturally spreading a lethal disease or being a metaphor for said disease is peak Corruption.

[nilesmoon]

I baffles me how someone rbed a post from me (lit major btw) and said that they prefer fanfic over literature bc the characters lack depth or whatever in the tags and it just makes me incredibly upset to see ppl saying shit like this because there are So Many good book out there!!! literature is so much fun when you find what works for you!!! but anyways why don't you read the metamorphosis by franz kafka and metamorphosize your taste

[veyzus]

Scorpio season barely here and I’m already in heat like didn’t even get a warning or anything pussy just wet all the time

[mingoosgf]

Manhwa feeds into my size k¡nk so much that it’s not even funny 😔

[fazcinatingblog]

who's 41 and why does he look like faz