Just got back from the class dinner at Fish & Co. Food was good but I have the usual complaint that it was too noisy for proper conversation to be easily had. This is why I prefer gatherings at houses rather than restaurants. But then, so much more to clean up... :p Still, good, fun evening.
Afdhal saw me reading Capote and gave me a quick run-down of the movie. (I actually very much enjoy discussing this kind of thing with Afdhal because he's so well-informed. Unfortunately I have nowhere that kind of interest or retention he does and often talking to him leaves this vague, floundering kind of feeling. The kind I get when some of my true otaku friends get down with each other. Conversationally I mean. What were you thinking?) The gist of what he described was that Capote did not help the man he was in love with (a convict) and let him die because he was basically writing their relationship out as his next book and it needed a good ending.
This got me thinking: firstly, if Capote were a woman, would his romance still hold the same disquieting note as it does in the movie? What if being gay is what adds to the 'originality' of the thing so to speak? In which case 'originality' sounds an awful lot like just putting the next most risque thing out there. Whereupon the talent becomes the ability to gauge what that thing is. Too far ahead of the curve and it'll just be too much for sensibilities. Too little and it becomse mundane.
There was a secondly... what was my second point? Ugh, yet another brilliant example of what facebooking while you blog will do to your thought process...
I really like climbing on stuff. I don't know why...
And if other people can't get up on it? That simply adds to the pleasure.
I don't know why my psyche's built that way but it is. Oh well. Makes for good pictures at least.
1 comment:
What I would recommend is for you to read In Cold Blood. I remember reading it in my JC2 year and being thorougly amazed by it. In the end I believe there has been too much speculation about Truman Capote's personal life - about his sexuality, his alcohol and drug addictions and so on. I think it should be enough to remember him for being an immensely talented writer.
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