Mini-rant...

[fajrdrako]

I would be really, really happy if I never read another Jack/Ianto fic in which Jack asks Ianto to stop calling him 'sir'.

Please.

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Re: Dickens

[myfavouriteplum.livejournal.com]

I slashed mainly 3 pairs from his last 3 finished novels: Charles Darnay/Sydney Carton, Pip/Herbert Pocket, and yeah, isn't Eugene Wrayburn/Mortimer Lightwood the champion? Pity that 'our mutual friend' is somehow less read by people. I love their banters. And poor Eugene...why have I loved so many disfigured bad-luck ones? Montgomery Clift comes to mind...
Darnay/Carton is similiar to Jack/Jack in my mind: it's about another side of the mirror, about the man you should have been, and about the pure power of coincidences. That's why the obsession comes so easily. I think Carton loves both Charles and Lucie. The Darnays in his eyes are an ideal which can't be separated. And if Darnay doesn't have the same face...though Carton will still view Lucie's happiness higher than his own, I doubt he'll go THAT far. Or Lucie will even become that important to him years ago, after they first met.
I find Pip/Herbert very sweet, though this feeling might be highly personal. I remember reading the chapter in which Herbert goes to Pip's for the first time and the bag of fruits are nearly smashed under his arm when he tries his way with the door. That was a lovely early summer afternoon and my father was washing some strawberries in the kitchen. He called my name and I could smell the sweet scent of strawberries when reading about Herbert's poor fruits. I was 10, or 11. That's a genuine moment of happiness. In later life I often dream about retconing myself so I can get the second chances to read some books for the first time--but I'd like my memories about 'Great Expectation' the way they were.

Re: Dickens

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

his last 3 finished novels

Which happen to be, probably, my favourites, though I do love Pickwick Papers (especially Sam Weller). I usually say Eugene Wrayburn is my favourite Dickens character, but I love Sydney Carton at least as much. That whole redemption-through-heroism thing.

yeah, isn't Eugene Wrayburn/Mortimer Lightwood the champion?

They are just beautiful together. Love their dialogue. Love the scenes where they are at the Venerring's dinner parties and Eugene is keeping Mortimer laughing by making rude and funny comments, and everyone thinks Mortimer is so cheerful, and Eugene so quiet.

Darnay/Carton is similiar to Jack/Jack in my mind: it's about another side of the mirror, about the man you should have been, and about the pure power of coincidences.

I must admit, when I cited Eugene and Mortimer as my slash pick from Dickens, I thought also of Darnay and Carton, so it must have been there in my head, lurking subcionsciously. "Too alike," I said to myself, but that's a strength as well as a weakness, and really, they are also a great study in contrasts.

I think Carton loves both Charles and Lucie.

He gives his life for both of them.

I am less familiar with Great Expectations and would have to read it again to say anything intelligent; I barely remember Herbert.

Re: Dickens

[myfavouriteplum.livejournal.com]

Eugene and Sydney definitely have to be cousins in the family of fictional characters. They are my favorite Dickens characters, too.
My feeling about 'Great Expectations' is very personal. And the pairing...must have come to my mind from watching Sir Alec Guinness as Herbert in David Lean's film version, which I catched on TV not long after I finished reading the novel.

Re: Dickens

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Eugene and Sydney definitely have to be cousins in the family of fictional characters. They are my favorite Dickens characters, too.

We do have a few fictional tastes in common, don't we?

I've never seen the David Lean movie.