[ SECRET POST #2584 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2584 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.
[Danball Senki Wars]


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02.
[Harry Potter]


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03.
[Burn Notice]


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04.
[The Island of Doctor Moreau]


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05.
[Papers, Please]


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06.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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07.
[Pretty Little Liars]


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08.
[KILL LA KILL]


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09.
[Labyrinth, The Hobbit]

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10.
[The Hobbit]


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11.
[The Hobbit]


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12.
[The Kiss of the Spider Woman]














Notes:

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Comments

Re: OP

[inevitableentresol]

I'm glad you agree about the FOUL FOOTNOTES. It's bothered me for years and I don't know anyone else in RL who's read the book to which I could complain.

The English copy I found was so good that I never considered trying to read the Spanish. I think it's one of those books with quite simple prose (like L'Etranger) which works well in translation.

Valentin's deliberately narrowed his experiences by involving himself in his tight revolutionary world. I think he's supposed to be the more progressive character, the one we look up to, but his life was so focused I had trouble empathising.

I never really asked myself if they were really in love, or how their relationship was. I accepted it as just something that happened in their strange environment. In a way, I didn't care because it was so doomed. I'm not sure Valentin even feels much lust. Isn't the question more whether he's just using Molina? Though of course he uses everyone, it's his political philosophy that the individual must serve the cause. Again, the question of him loving Molina is irrelevant, since he'd sacrifice him anyway.

At the start of the book, the first time I read it, Molina's clinging to gender roles annoyed me. I thought the writer was just going to make him that kind of cliched fictional queer. By the end, I felt full sympathy for Molina and why he was that way. He didn't change but my view of him did.