Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
When the very old die, they each take a multitude with them.
Irvin D. Yalom • Staring at the Sun
‘the morals of the
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
occult
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
aberration,
Anna Kavan • Ice (Penguin Modern Classics)
It was a risk to mention the Royal Shakespeare Company, and RADA, but the Discreet Mourners woman failed to link Astrid Miller, Audrey Hepburn’s Friend One, with the Astrid Fellowes who had been at the centre of a scandal in the 1970s and had gone mad on stage at the National, midway through a matinee of Macbeth.
Lucy Atkins • Windmill Hill
has been more than silly or eccentric, it has been actively dangerous. It has hurt women. It continues to hurt them. And it shows how bad stories can kill people. Or to put it another way, it shows how good stories read badly, read the wrong way, can be poisonous.