#where every interpersonal dynamic remains unhealed
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I’m sure I’ve said it before but to me the two greatest modern works are: lord of the rings, brideshead revisited.
#or if not two of the greatest! I am limited in my reading#but there’s something about each of them where they are the blueprint for this age because they are OF this age (relatively speaking.)#(in the grand scheme of things and history)#lord of the rings because everything is in decay and there IS no hope#brideshead because every interpersonal relationship has failed#and everything is so hideously ugly#and yet the eucatastrophe of lord of the rings#and the ending of brideshead#where every interpersonal dynamic remains unhealed#Charles can’t save Sebastian#he doesn’t get Julia. it all has so truthfully fallen apart#and yet the light in the sanctuary lamp still burns!!!!!!#it makes me !!!! want to throw up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#(sorry for being graphic)#I just
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