“… There Are Shadows Because There Are Hills.” ― E.M. Forster, A Room With A View

I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.

E.M. Forster, A Room with a View (via wordsnquotes)

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What's the coolest thing you've seen since you have been in space?

The Earth never fails to disappoint, but I’ve seen some pretty spectacular aurora from here. 

It is a wonderful opportunity, the possession of leisure.

“A Room with A View” E.M. Forster (via teeraksamur)

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CLASSIC OF THE DAY:

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster 

Romantic comedy this is not. The rosiness of a woman stumbling upon convenient fantasy fulfillment by marrying into privilege and bourgeois wealth do not tinge the themes of this classic. Rather this aspires to the novelty of a sort of female bildungsroman. A woman who is roused into the acknowledgement of her desires and self through the unwitting intervention of men considered unworthy of being even good travel companions - how many male authors/poets/dramatists of Forster’s generation have cared enough about class distinctions and gender inequality to fashion such a narrative?

Sexually and emotionally inhibited young woman savoring personal liberty for the first time through the love of a man of inferior social standing who assumes a consciously passive role in earning her affections - this was, perhaps, Forster’s way of contradicting and affirming Austenian values at the same time. The very possibility of the intersection of marital bliss and lack of wealth and connections in a prospective husband and disregard for societal approval lay well outside the limits of Austen’s imagination but she did endow her many women characters with enough dimensions to be keenly distinguishable from each other.

What else is there to say? Here’s to the unexpected joy of discovering another male author of the last century, who was effortlessly free of the abysmal sexism that is so regrettably palpable in the work of many novelists (of all genders) of the present. Here’s to a great story-teller who ventured beyond the narrow horizons conferred on him by his times.

by guest reviewer Samadrita 

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What's the first thing you'll do when you come home?

I’ll give Amiko, Samantha and Charlotte a big hug. 

“…though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.” ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View