this is our debt: love

[sophistry]

I know every inch of this cell. This cell knows every inch of me. Except one.



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[sophistry]

Oh my god, I know - it absolutely shattered me in the film, and the graphic novel version does the same. Have you read any of the rest of Alan Moore's work? The man has some sort of hotline into both how the world is and what our hearts desperately want the world to be, and a way of articulating it that - not to sound pat - is honest-to-Christ mindblowing. Not so much world-altering as bringing a sudden and gut-punching clarity/understanding to your own beliefs, your own dreams for all of us.

(Forgive the incoherence; it's 10am, and I'm not just-awake, I'm still awake.)

Anyway! If you haven't read his work, V for Vendetta is the obvious suggestion, but I really-truly (and really-literally) cannot recommend Promethea and Watchmen highly enough.

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I've read Promethea and V for Vendetta :)

As for some of his other-other work, are you familiar with The Highbury Working? It's a recording; you can get it on CD easily enough. Definitely look into it.

[sophistry]

So noted! And oh dear lord, hie thee hence and pick up a copy of Watchmen. It's... phenomenal. There's no other way to describe it - and if there were, I wouldn't be able to find the words to do so. Possibly tied with Promethea, it's my favourite thing he's done. Plus, with the movie in production (and tentatively looking like it's going to be a doozy), no better time to sink your teeth into it.

(I'm currently working my way through Voice of the Fire [a novel, this time, as opposed to graphic novel]; it's set in a number of different periods throughout history, and I find I have to put it aside for a while after each segment, just to come to terms with it. A+, would be awed by again.)