Generally just thinking about things doesn't, quite, except private things, things about the kids. But there are certain moments in poems, and sometimes even in not-poems, if we're talking about them, if I'm pressing them on people I trust. The last line of the Iliad, for example. Dollabella's reaction to the messenger from Antony sending him all his treasure, with his bounty overplus. I think there's a huge element of gratitude and that sort of tearing up, for me.
What motivated my asking was the end of On the Edge, a Bruce Dern movie from the '80s. It's the single most embarrassing thing that does that to me: he's a marathon runner, and turns back when he's about to win to join hands with those behind him, so that they all cross the line together. I didn't even watch the movie, it was just on while I was doing homework or something and I looked up and caught the scene.
I think I've posted about Turgenev's deathbed letter to Tolstoy, which at least according to Tolstoy seems to have been what gave us Ivan Ilych through Hadji Murad. And about Kepler's dying gestures. Another one from science is how Wallace handled finding out about Darwin.
Probably lots from literature but they're escaping me. Well, Mr. Flood is aptly named.
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Date: 2014-02-11 01:57 am (UTC)And what does it for you?
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Date: 2014-02-11 05:37 am (UTC)I think I've posted about Turgenev's deathbed letter to Tolstoy, which at least according to Tolstoy seems to have been what gave us Ivan Ilych through Hadji Murad. And about Kepler's dying gestures. Another one from science is how Wallace handled finding out about Darwin.
Probably lots from literature but they're escaping me. Well, Mr. Flood is aptly named.
Clearly I need to finish the Iliad.