#saul emerson

[flipsidered]

hi :)

[oliveoomph]

Person of Interest - s03e12 - Aletheia

[j1gsawz]

rory 🍵 he/they 🍵 nineteen

some things i like:

- saw / horror movies

- person of interest / michael emerson in general

- doctor who

- supernatural

- star trek

- what we do in the shadows

- the x-files

- gravity falls

- scott pilgrim

- breaking bad & better call saul

- warrior cats

- the lego movie

- my chemical romance

- twenty one pilots

- “weird al” yankovic (met al 8/10/24!! ❤️)

- 2000’s / early 2010’s internet culture

and more!!

other places you can find me <3

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[power-chords]

He was half elegant, half slovenly. That had always been his style. If he knotted his tie with care, his shoelaces dragged. His brother Shura, immaculate in his tailored clothes, manicured and barbered at the Palmer House, said this was done on purpose. Once it had perhaps been his boyish defiance, but by now it was an established part of the daily comedy of Moses E. Herzog. Ramona often said, “You're not a true, puritanical American. You have a talent for sensuality. Your mouth gives you away.” Herzog could not help putting his fingers to his lip when it was mentioned. But then he laughed the whole thing off. What remained to bother him was that she did not recognize him as an American. That hurt! What else was he? In the Service his mates had also considered him a foreigner. The Chicagoans questioned him suspiciously. “What's on State and Lake? How far west is Austin Avenue?” Most of them seemed to come from the suburbs. Moses knew the city much better than they, but even this was turned against him. “Ah, you just memorized everything. You're a spy. That proves. One of them smart Jews. Come clean, Mose—they're gonna drop you by parachute—right?” No, he became a communications officer, discharged for asthma. Choked by fog, in the Gulf of Mexico, on maneuvers, losing contact owing to his hoarseness. Except that the whole fleet heard him groan, “We're lost! Fucked!”

But in Chicago, in 1934, he was class orator at the McKinley High School, his text taken from Emerson. He didn't lose his voice then, telling the Italian mechanics, Bohemian barrel makers, Jewish tailors The main enterprise of the world, for splendor . . . is the upbuilding of a man. The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy . . . than any kingdom in history. Let it be granted that our life, as we lead it, is common and mean. . . . Beautiful and perfect men we are not now. . . . The community in which we live will hardly bear to be told that every man should be open to ecstasy or a divine illumination. If he had lost craft and crew somewhere near Biloxi, that didn't mean he wasn't in earnest about beauty and perfection. He believed his American credentials were in good order. Laughing, but pained, too, he remembered that a Chief Petty Officer from Alabama had asked him, "Wheah did you loin to speak English—at the Boilitz Scho-ool?" No, what Ramona meant, as a compliment, was that he had not lived the life of an ordinary American. No, his peculiarities had governed him from the start. Did he see any great value or social distinction in this? Well, he had to endure these peculiarities, so there was no reason why he shouldn't make use of them, a little.

—Saul Bellow, Herzog, 1964

[linusbenjamin]

Hi hello how are you coping after finishing lost? Please feel free to come scream at me about it

i'm trying so hard to cope lol thanks. but the real question is, there are people who watched this show years ago, how are they coping years later??? i really need to rewatch it a few times to understand better but overall i've never seen anything like this, well executed plot, the character developments, the easter eggs, such a mystery that you'll never be able to solve even after years... the first thing i did was to open lostpedia fandom and read all of trivia and facts and errors and stuff, and then i read all of your tags on my old lost gifsets 😭 i've been waiting this moment for 4 months 😭 and sometimes i open lost's soundtrack and look at my past gifsets and start crying as if i don't have enough reasons to cry 😂 the ending was a mystery like the series itself. this finale definitely needed a reunion, although it seemed to me a little bit forced, but this was the most logical ending they could come up with, so i'm not complaining. after the finale i've learned there was an extra episode which includes benjamin and hurley and it was a big relief for me! bc my fav character is benjamin linus, and i thought his ending was really sad, it's like i shouldn't pity him bc he's the worst person ever but this is why i love lost, because benjamin still makes you cry in the end even though he killed hundreds of people in cold blood :') after watching it, i thought maybe it could've been the finale instead bc it's kinda more positive... or maybe a spin-off? THAT WOULD BE SO GREAT, i'm pretty sure everyone thought about the possibility of a spinoff, that would've been really great because it has the potential *sigh*... i'm gonna keep making gifsets and explain my thoughts as i go along, there are too many characters and events, so i can't focus on every one of them at once. when i finished better call saul, i needed to distract myself so i started lost and now i started person of interest to distract myself from lost 😂 (mostly because of michael emerson my beloved <3) so i wish i could erase lost from my memory so i can experience it again...

[frankensteincest]

Bakhtin often refers to the participants in a dialogic conception of truth as ‘voice-ideas’. By this phrase he has in mind a unity of idea and personality: the idea represents a person’s integral point of view on the world, which cannot be abstracted from the person voicing it. Conversely, the person who holds the idea becomes a full personality by virtue of that idea, the idea is not just something he happens to believe, but is an essential shaping force throughout his life. Such ideas are, as Dostoevsky observed, ‘felt’. When two such voice-ideas come to interact, they may produce a dialogue changing both of them and giving rise to new insights and new dialogues. The ‘unity’ of truth becomes the unified ‘feel’ of a conversation, not the unity of a single proposition, however complex, that may result from it. When monologic thinkers encounter such conversations, they try to extract just such a finalising proposition, but in doing so they are false to the dialogic process itself.

CARYL EMERSON and GARY SAUL MORSON, ‘Polyphony: Authoring a Hero’ from Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics

[grandhotelabyss]

I noticed you restructured the American syllabus for the IC, and after groaning at the extra cash I would have to lay down to buy the readings (and at there being only one week of Dickinson*), I rejoiced that I would finally get introduced to American modernism. Along those lines —

Would you consider postwar literature (through to the millenium) for a future IC? If not (or even if so!) I would love to hear how you’d structure this era/a syllabus on it, which you’ve talked about in glowing terms before. But I’m too young to have picked it up as it happened, and it’s too young to have been really canonised yet (or at least, the culture wars have stopped it from being canonised on its own terms rather than primarily political ones). Or maybe it has been but I don’t know where to look, although you said recently that criticism for that era hasn’t yet lived up to the books themselves.

But like, Morrison and DeLilo and Ellison and Bellow and Roth and Baldwin and Pynchon and McCarthy and Nabokov (kinda) and Wallace (apparently) and who else am I missing, and a handful of romancers like Dick and Le Guin — not to mention poets, playwrights, essayists, or Brits! And I don’t know how it all fits together, since we’ve (as Bloom predicted!) handed over the keys to the cultural narrative to the ‘cultural studies’ people who know only how to read films and magazines, and even then just barely.

*Also, do you think you might be able to include at the end of the syllabus a note on the works you’ve swapped out? The expanded guide would be useful, even though (indeed because!) it includes some of the more obvious picks, which I can return to later.

Thanks! I did address some of your questions about how exactly I changed the syllabus in my most recent Substack. I mainly just deleted a few Emerson essays (Nature, "The Divinity School Address," "Circles," "Experience"), Thoreau's Walden (in favor of two shorter pieces by him), and a handful of Whitman's Civil War poems.

I have the lectures for a course I taught on American Lit from 1945 to the present on YouTube here. I wouldn't do anything differently when it comes to poetry and drama than I did there. With fiction, I focused on the short story because it was an intro-level class; for that reason I omitted some writers mainly known for novels (Ellison, Bellow, McCarthy) but I didn't avoid anyone on strictly political grounds (Roth and Wallace are included, for instance, despite the controversy about them). I don't really think of Nabokov as an American writer! For the criticism of the era, big names include Irving Howe, Lionel Trilling, Elizabeth Hardwick, Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, and then it becomes more strictly academic...I'm not sure I'd ever teach a course on that per se.

I would consider and have considered an IC course focused on the postwar American novel, though I'd probably cut it off at 2000. (As Roger Shattuck once said quixotically of the Visible College, "Students can read living authors on their own time." The few living authors below are over 80 and effectively beyond criticism.) The reading list would probably look like this:

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away

Saul Bellow, Herzog

Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays

Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

Cynthia Ozick, The Cannibal Galaxy

Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey [*]

Don DeLillo, Underworld

Toni Morrison, Paradise

With the postwar British novel, I don't have a list at my fingertips and would have to think about it—and probably read more widely myself. Graham Greene, Christopher Isherwood, Muriel Spark, Iris Murdoch, J. G. Ballard, A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, David Mitchell...who else? I'm probably missing obvious people! (I've never read Penelope Fitzgerald, for example. I want to read The Blue Flower but have to read that Novalis thing first and then it never happens, etc. Never read Kingsley Amis, don't care for Martin Amis...)

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[*] This one would be aspirational. It's long and ambitious, and I read and was fascinated by some of it while researching for the "U.S. Multicultural Literatures" class I used to teach. I never finished it, though, and keep meaning to get back to it.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 14 January:

#OTD in Irish History | 14 January:

1753 – Death of George Berkeley, Irish philosopher and Anglican. 1775 – John Hely-Hutchinson, Provost of Trinity College, fights a duel with William Doyle over abusive newspaper articles. Doyle is ill and has to lean on a crutch at the duel; on being challenged he had initially complained of sore eyes, and ‘objected to stand merely to be shot at, without the power of retaliation’. Neither party…

[gifsontherun]

Person of Interest 📷 3.11 "Lethe"

[norvicfiddler]

Person of Interest (3x12) - Aletheia - 2 of 3

Harold Finch and Arthur Claypool

‘Harold, I did it. I solved it, before they shut me down. Harold, Samaritan is alive.’

[flipsidered]

wait isnt casper from that dating sim you were working on?

yes! Zeke’s band used to be the focus of a visual novel/dating sim Elliot and I were working on. Unfortunately that’s been shelved because i’ve got no time atm to work on it, but i might revisit it in the future. Til then, here’s some talksprites i mocked up :>

More under the cut! Casper and Donnie are mine, Saul and Zeke belong to Elliot. These four are going to feature relatively heavily in this/next Maggot Boy chapter!

[ablogthatishenceforthmine]

My Dream 2022 Emmy Nominations: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

In alphabetical order

Kieran Culkin (Succesion)

Tony Dalton (Better Call Saul)

Michael Emerson (Evil)

Patrick Fabian (Better Call Saul)

Michael Mando (Better Call Saul)

Matthew McFayden (Succession)

Tramell Tillman (Severance)

John Turturro (Severance)

[j1gsawz]

rory ✦ he/they ✦ nineteen

some stuff i like: person of interest (!!!), michael emerson, saw, doctor who, star trek, the x-files, what we do in the shadows, supernatural, breaking bad & better call saul, the twilight saga, scott pilgrim, pokémon, warrior cats, my chemical romance, radiohead, twenty one pilots, cocteau twins, “weird al” yankovic (met al 8/10/24 ❤️🪗), 2000’s/2010’s culture, & more!!

i occasionally repost bloody / gory stuff from films / shows & some suggestive content!! so be aware!!

other places you can find me <3

letterboxd ✦ serializd ✦ pinterest

[ettadunham]

[π] person of interest quarantine rewatch ➥ 3x12 aletheia

[jimcaviezelfan]

Person of Interest BTS with our favorite cast.

[briefwatch]

#Tranfer Deadline: Saul, Emerson, Daniel James On ...

#Tranfer Deadline: Saul, Emerson, Daniel James On …

As the summer transfer window closes tonight, there are several businesses to be concluded as Chelsea, Tottenham, Barcelona are all active in the market to get the services of some important players. Chelsea sign Saul From Atletico On Loan  Chelsea have secured a loan deal for Saul Niguez from Atletico for €5M, He will be in England in the coming hours to complete his move as paperwork is going…