Aw shucks. I'm just a sucker for hm... What's the word... Dramatic romance. Dramance? Yes, well it is now, anyway. We were reading "Giovanni's Room" for my gay and lesbian literature class last semester, and I was the only one who LOVED the first love scene between Giovanni and David. Dunno if you have read the book (soo good...), but it's just this really heart-wrenchingly sentimental dramatic romantic moment where David just gives in to desire... *melts into puddle* And the scene where Lister considers what caressing Rimmer would be like reminded me of that.
I haven't read it, but I'm a-gonna have to. Dramance? I like it as a term. I know what you mean, and I love it, too; that point where love/desire becomes almost painful in intensity...
I must warn you, it has a really, really unhappy ending. My course teacher said he couldn't bare to re-read it for the course, because it effected him so strongly emotionally. Books about gay people in the fifties rarely ended well. :/
I have been warned... I'm still going to check it out.
Ja, true - that's what I liked about Maurice. Clive did the societally correct thing and got married, ending up miserable, and Maurice stayed true to who he was and found happiness. An interesting book, for the time in which it was written.
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Still - Dramance!
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Ja, true - that's what I liked about Maurice. Clive did the societally correct thing and got married, ending up miserable, and Maurice stayed true to who he was and found happiness. An interesting book, for the time in which it was written.