– I wish we had him out of here. I wish it were somebody else.
– It’s a trifle late for that, don’t you think? Whom would you have preferred? Kenneth?
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Rope — Alfred Hitchcock (1948)
Although the two men’s sexuality is never made explicit in the film, the relationship between Granger’s and Dall’s characters has a strong homoerotic subtext, skilfully engineered by Hitchcock and his actors through staging, art direction and nuance. […] “There wasn’t a scene between them where it wasn’t clearly implied”.
Charm me. Furiously. Torment me. In detail.
Hermann Hesse, from Crisis: Pages from a Diary; “The Seducer,” (via lovely–delight)
How swiftly the strained honey
of afternoon light
flows into darknessand the closed bud shrugs off
its special mystery
in order to break into blossom:as if what exists, exists
so that it can be lost
and become precious– Lisel Mueller, “In Passing”
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