So give me the ghost, give me the crumbs, and something to help me sleep at night
I do not understand the phenomenon whereby actually sleeping makes me even more exhausted, but I don't like it: I would prefer to be writing things and I need to work. Have some links.
1. I am fascinated by the existence of Terence Davies' Benediction (2021), both because it's a biopic of Siegfried Sassoon and I hadn't even heard it was in the works. It has a hell of a cast, even if I will inevitably complain that it's not that hard to cast a Jewish actor for a Jewish part—he didn't start Roman Catholic. Seeing Peter Capaldi credited as the older version of Sassoon suddenly made me want to see him in Stoppard's The Invention of Love.
2. In case your life contains an insufficiency of lesbians, please enjoy Beatrice Fenton and Marjorie Martinet. Also this on-set photo from Bound (1996) and its magnificent tag.
3. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sholio: Torchwood Three TikTok headcanon accepted.
4. Courtesy ofmoon_custafer: a great face on a tailoring student from 1955.
5. I had never heard of seasteading before this article: "The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world's first cryptocurrency cruise ship." I have to say that offshore pirate radio stations, thalassocracies, and the Principality of Sealand all sound cooler to me, but don't double-feature as well with libertarians walking into bears.
I finally have a lap desk for Bertie as opposed to a succession of large flat books and Autolycus wants to sleep on it instead, of course.
1. I am fascinated by the existence of Terence Davies' Benediction (2021), both because it's a biopic of Siegfried Sassoon and I hadn't even heard it was in the works. It has a hell of a cast, even if I will inevitably complain that it's not that hard to cast a Jewish actor for a Jewish part—he didn't start Roman Catholic. Seeing Peter Capaldi credited as the older version of Sassoon suddenly made me want to see him in Stoppard's The Invention of Love.
2. In case your life contains an insufficiency of lesbians, please enjoy Beatrice Fenton and Marjorie Martinet. Also this on-set photo from Bound (1996) and its magnificent tag.
3. Courtesy of
sholio: Torchwood Three TikTok headcanon accepted.4. Courtesy of
moon_custafer: a great face on a tailoring student from 1955.5. I had never heard of seasteading before this article: "The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world's first cryptocurrency cruise ship." I have to say that offshore pirate radio stations, thalassocracies, and the Principality of Sealand all sound cooler to me, but don't double-feature as well with libertarians walking into bears.
I finally have a lap desk for Bertie as opposed to a succession of large flat books and Autolycus wants to sleep on it instead, of course.
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There was a pretty significant expulsion from the Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century: I'd guess they came with it.
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Ironically Siegfried's relative Abdullah (who changed his name to Albert) was perceived as Indian by racist songwriters of the day (despite the family preserving its Judeo-Arabic language) and some British official wrote to the Sassoons as "native gentlemen of Bombay."
Anyway this all answers the question that I'd long wondered about, why didn't Siegfried Sassoon consider himself Indian at all, and the answer seems to be that they weren't there very long and while there were trying very hard to be British and not to get pigeonholed as "native."
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Excuse me, I'm having a bit of a galaxy brain moment, because knowing nothing about the said Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, I went to look him up and discovered his great-great-great-grandson is the actor Jack Huston. Who may or may not have been raised or consider himself Jewish despite having both the Sassoons and the Rothschilds in his direct family line, but for original purposes of this discussion, I'm counting him!
Anyway this all answers the question that I'd long wondered about, why didn't Siegfried Sassoon consider himself Indian at all, and the answer seems to be that they weren't there very long and while there were trying very hard to be British and not to get pigeonholed as "native."
THANKS, COLONIALISM.
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And yeah, thanks colonialism. I don't judge the Sassoons at all for identifying with the ruling British culture given the stakes. (The opium trade stuff tho...unfortunately when one looks for more info on their involvement, antisemites start to show up. Like there weren't plenty of British Christians involved too.)
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Right? He's Huston on one side and on the other he's Cholmondeley; his great-grandmother was Sybil Sassoon, Abdullah's granddaughter. (Who was alive into Jack's childhood, good grief; they built them long-lived in those days.) I've seen a painting of her by John Singer Sargent! If they didn't even approach him, what the hell.
I don't judge the Sassoons at all for identifying with the ruling British culture given the stakes.
And truly, what was more British in the nineteenth century than the opium trade?
The opium trade stuff tho...unfortunately when one looks for more info on their involvement, antisemites start to show up.
Color me zero percent surprised.
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I have heard of that, but never heard any of it! Is there a cast recording, or were you lucky enough to see it at the time?
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I slept like two hours, but I think I would still be laughing my face off at this line.