#Samuel "Screech" Powers

[cultfaction]

Dustin Diamond passes away aged 44

Dustin Diamond passes away aged 44

It is Cult Faction’s sad duty to report that Screech himself, Dustin Diamond has passed away at the age of 44 years old from Stage 4 lung cancer. Reports indicate Dustin passed away this morning after his condition greatly declined since it was reported last week. He was taken off of breathing machines in an attempt to get him to hospice care. His girlfriend was by his side when he passed…

[antigonick]

hi pauline! i’m the anon who lost her dad almost two months ago. i loved your recs and have found a considerable amount of peace in spirituality, although it never truly goes away. after this tragical episode i want to step on my views of life through what i read. so maybe, what are the books who shook you in a good way? not something life-changing precisely (or yes) but, like, a good conscious boost? sorry if this is way too specific.

Hey love, I'm happy you’re feeling a little better. It’s not too specific, I think, but it might be very, very subjective? Hopefully one of these will speak to you as it has spoken to me. 

Gravity and Grace, by Simone Weil (trans. Arthur Wills)

Pensées, by Blaise Pascal (trans. A. J. Krailsheimer)

Essays, by Montaigne (trans. M. A. Screech)

Memorial, by Alice Oswald

Letters, between Abélard and Héloïse and Alexander Pope’s Eloisa to Abélard (both here, though the translator of the letters is not mentioned)

Plainwater, The Glass Essay, Decreation and Autobiography of Red, by Anne Carson

The Myth of Sisyphus, by Albert Camus (trans. Justin O’Brien)

The Laugh of the Medusa, by Hélène Cixous (trans. Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen)

The Complete Poems and Prose, by Christina Rossetti and The Complete Poems by John Keats

Thiruppavai and Nachiar Tirumozhi, by Andal (trans. Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Ravi Shankar in Autobiography of a Goddess) 

Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by Tom Stoppard

The Madwoman in the Attic, by Susan Gubar and Sandra Gilbert

Elektra, by Sophokles (trans. Anne Carson), Elektra, by Euripides (trans. Janet Lembke and Kenneth Reckford), and The Flies, by Sartre (trans. Stuart Gilbert)

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, by Julia Kristeva (trans. Leon S. Roudiez)

West Wind, by Mary Oliver

The ongoing Fallen Hero series, by Malin Rydén 

Roe Head Journal and Letters, for example as quoted in Juliet Barker’s The Brontës, by Charlotte Brontë

Averno, by Louise Glück

Illuminations, by Arthur Rimbaud (trans. John Ashbery) and Poems by Stéphane Mallarmé (trans. ??)

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)

Second Finding: a Poetics of Translation, by Barbara Folkart

The Waves, by Virginia Woolf, and as you know—Memoirs of Hadrian, by Marguerite Yourcenar (trans. Grace Frick)

And there must be more, but I’m coming up empty. This list feels weirdly intimate actually. Tell me if you find something to your liking in there, yeah?