peter rietbergen
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There's a sadness creeping, seeping through H's existence. It is beautifully worded. But yet... The bullying, the failed (almost-) relations, and now, at the office, a strange determination to allow nothing to happen: do we accept/believe that someone would accept his life to be dominated by unwashed pans and unopened boxes?
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I am not a psychologist.nnircdi I know the end of this story. But I beg to disagree with all the above comments on Brian. He has, I think, always known he was dying. And couldn't let T come as near as saying I love you would have implied. Now, probably, with death perhaps really near, he needs T again but can't yet "commit" to T. Who would saddle a healthy young man to a dying one?
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An impressive battle of minds, of wills. The very stuff of epics. If only all of us had a Wylan to combat our demons.... But, by the way, if M senses the links between C and A dangerously growing stronger, she cannot in the next momen dismissed A as irrelevant.
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Unavailable? We'll see - or so I assume. Something - or rather someone - has to alleviate the misery of this office, though, really, much of it seems of Harry's own making....
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My first time. Very atmospheric. I am "hooked" already.
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Oh well, I'll accept saucerless TEAcups - you're kidding - and Frankish - really! - opera's if I have the hook, line and sinker romance that followed...
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Germany – Mad Ludwig’s little place
peter rietbergen commented on Robert Hugill's story chapter in Germany – Mad Ludwig’s little place
Try and sit through even one of the four Ring opera's and you'll know the answer🙂 -
A good chapter! I love you. Of course not. Not yet, that is. For the time being it means: I need to be in love, to be loved. Which is something different altogether. Whether it will turn into a real "I love you": we will see.
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Germany – Mad Ludwig’s little place
peter rietbergen commented on Robert Hugill's story chapter in Germany – Mad Ludwig’s little place
Indeed ugh : a boyfriend who wants to take one to Bayreuth every year to hear the entire Ring, and more. The instrumental music often is beguiling, the endless "verses" masking as poetry are simply mind-numbing. One always wonders if nobody ever told W he wasn't a gifted writer. It would have given us beautiful "leit-motive" but spared us the interminable opera's. -
The driving out of the mercury is a moving scene. As to all the speculation about polished and polishing lances: if the father can love a blind man, why shouldn't the son love a permanently weak one. But for the complication of the gendered royal succession laws.
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Polished lances or not, metaphorical and/or real ones: we may rest assured that, at least in this story, Good will destroy Evil. If only we could be equally assured it does so in real life.
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A threat or a deliverer. Fir Iwen. Ad, perhaps, fir Margot! I'm not going to say: we'll see, for as stories go we know how this will end. But the way thither is fascinating indeed.
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And I'm forgetting the Knights Templar....
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A clever mixture of Arthurian legend, Game of Thrones and the beginning of the Hundred Years's War. With enough gayness in it, too
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I visualise Adela as the Queen in Tenniel's illustrations for Alice in W.
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The only one who can "set things right" is, of course, Owen. And he isn't there yet. But somehow circumstances will bring him there.
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Chapter 27: When Empires Split and Shadows Speak
peter rietbergen commented on vanalas's story chapter in Chapter 27: When Empires Split and Shadows Speak
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A very nice mixture of adventure, excitement and fun.
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The story really convincingly mixes the personal with the political.
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Well, finally they are growing (up): BOTH of them.
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Those were sad times indeed. But when we think this all is in the past, now: alas, at least in the Netherlands, after decades of growing acceptance, homophobia is on the rise again. By the way, wasn't Thrush part of the Man from Uncle-series?
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German trip – concert
peter rietbergen commented on Robert Hugill's story chapter in German trip – concert
It'd be nice to know if N has heard any Wagner, and what he makes of it. But I seem to remember the Lohengrin Swan Boat is not at Neuschwanstein but at Linderhof? -
I do not feel this was a suffocating chapter. Indeed, I think that O, perhaps without realising it, in talking to E has not only described himself - then and now - but also "knows" that something immeasurably precious has been given to him: the love of the children in his group. He is discovering that empathy maybe his greatest asset. It may even be the strength he needs to break out of his restricted/restricting context: his salvation Whether he is, actually, projecting onto Ryder an understandable but perhaps idealising spirit that answers to his need for a real friend is, I feel, a, perhaps even the major question of their relationship.
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The journey to 31st December 1973
peter rietbergen commented on Gary L's story chapter in The journey to 31st December 1973
It'd been too long since i last was in Barcelona. To be virtually back is at least something. And in exciting times, too. -
As to the meeting in the diner: I was mistake about its character. The author cleverly planted a bomb under the budding relationship. But dare I say that in the end all.... Only rarely do authors dare to disappoint their readers and deprive them of the longed-for happy end...
