mathemata reblogged
‘You do care a lot about something, Hall, but it obviously isn’t the Trinity’
pathemata: Here’s the Maurice art I mentioned for the passage you quoted in your Risley/Maurice/Clive punting gifset yesterday.
Maurice Hall and Clive Durham, Maurice by E. M. Forster (1971): art by Dakota. Part of a 20 Nov 2010 post at thedoodlewall.blogspot (the artist’s joint personal art blog).
Artist’s notes: ‘This was a project for class, where we had to take some dialogue and avoid drawing talking heads, and make it interesting with panels and stuff. I took my dialogue from Maurice by E.M. Forster, which is always in my favorite 3 books. The whole book encapsulates exactly how I felt figuring out I was gay, dealing with religion, growing up, and it was written by Forster in the 19th century but hidden until the 70’s. It’s so romantic too. Oh man.’
(Book-canon art, so it’s black-haired Maurice and blond Clive.)
This is absolutely terrific! The look on Clive's face in that last panel - he really was fond of this blundering creature.
Thanks for sharing!
"I knew you wouldn't like this, but you have brought it on yourself. You can't expect me to bottle myself up indefinitely. I must let out sometimes."
"Go on," said Maurice, clearing his throat.
"I never meant to talk, for I respect people's opinions too much to laugh at them, but it doesn't seem to me that you have any opinions to respect. They're all second-hand tags — no, tenth-hand."
Maurice, who was recovering, remarked that this was pretty strong.
"You're always saying, I care a lot. "
"And what right have you to assume that I don't?"
"You do care a lot about something, Hall, but it obviously isn't the Trinity."
"When their intimacy is... established... and the loved one... has grown used... to being near his friend... and touching him in... the gymnasium and elsewhere-"