26 Matching Annotations
  1. Mar 2017
    1. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

      At 53:22 in Sherlock

    2. Somewhere in the heart of the great Grimpen Mire, down in the foul slime of the huge morass which had sucked him in, this cold and cruel-hearted man is forever buried.

      At 1:24:10 the villian gets blown up instead of sinking into the moor.

  2. Feb 2017
    1. filiation

      the fact of being or of being designated the child of a particular parent or parents. or the manner in which a thing is related to another from which it is derived or descended in some respect.

    2. dilatory

      this is defined as being slow to act

    3. A work whose integrally symbolic nature one conceives, perceives, and receives is a text.

      What happens if you can't perceive the the symbolic nature? What is it then?

    4. scriptor's,

      an interesting way to say author?

  3. Jan 2017
  4. Nov 2016
    1. We might say that Here teaches us that comics is—or at a minimum is becoming—a newly digital medium.

      The overlapping panels does make it seem more digital even in print.

    1. The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853.

  5. Oct 2016
    1. Perhaps the most interesting thing about Windy’s potential queerness, though, is Rose’s obliviousness to it

      I assumed that there was going to be a relationship between Rose and Windy and when it didn't happen I was a little disappointed.

    1. Recent literary criticism has focused on the effects of trauma and how they can be realistically presented in literature.

      Rorschach is a good example of this.

    1. one untainted with hollywood adaptations of his works and millions of fans wondering when the sequel to Watchmen will come out

      Nothing popular can escape Hollywood. But that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

  6. Aug 2016
    1. Mr. Oldbuck and his ladye-love having been tried and condemned, are led to the stake

      This seems a tad extreme

    2. drowning

      How can he fail at killing himself multiple times yet be able to drown a man?

    3. For eight days Mr. Oldbuck believes himself dead

      What did he do for 8 days?