Robert's favourite books

laperouse Wild Mood Swings member God In another circle Posts: 4,002	Robert's favourite books Mar 21, 2017 14:28:00 GMT 1 sang, emmafleur, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by laperouse on Mar 21, 2017 14:28:00 GMT 1 Another influence by early Kafka is obvious in Another Journey By Train. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penal_Colony:_Stories_and_Short_Pieces
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Mr. Pinkeyes Three Imaginary Boys member Posts: 18	Robert's favourite books Apr 29, 2017 18:05:53 GMT 1 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Mr. Pinkeyes on Apr 29, 2017 18:05:53 GMT 1 Gormenghast is great!

emmafleur Faith member Posts: 153	Robert's favourite books May 3, 2017 23:05:23 GMT 1 via mobile steve, mrslovecats, and 2 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by emmafleur on May 3, 2017 23:05:23 GMT 1 Just catching back up with this - real life got in the way for a while. Stupid real life. There are lots of books for me to be going on with. Thanks all 💜

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Robert's favourite books Sept 24, 2017 21:35:41 GMT 1 deepwater and sang like this

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Just found this thread... Guess I haven't been around in a while..!
Another one by Kafka, a (very) short story entitled Nachts, is the inspiration behind At Night. It was published in English in 1971 in The Complete Stories under the title we all know.

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Robert's favourite books Oct 30, 2017 2:37:07 GMT 1 mrslovecats, sang, and 1 more like this

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Post by rubyali on Oct 30, 2017 2:37:07 GMT 1

I just found out the other day my favorite Cure lyric is actually from Sylvia Plath!!!!

From the Letters of Sylvia Plath:
'I'm glad the rain is coming down hard. It's the way I feel inside.'

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Robert's favourite books Oct 30, 2017 2:48:11 GMT 1

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Some notes I've collected related to books & Robert:

Robert on 'Where The Birds Always Sing'...

"Part of Iain Banks's The Crow Road dealt with themes that are also in "The Birds Always Sing."" (The Final Cure, Barnes & Noble Online 23/2/2000, Ken Micallef)

Robert on 'Pictures Of You'...

"Loosely based on an essay by Myra Poleo entitled 'The Dark Power of Ritual Pictures' - after reading it I destroyed all my old 'personal' photographs, and almost all of my 'home' cine and video collection - I think I was trying to wipe away my past... within days I was suffering great regret; I still am!" (September 1997)

Robert on 'A Short Term Effect'...

"When I came across 'The Language of Madness' in a bookshop, I noticed that it had a drawing by a mental patient which looked very like this head (the head found whilst recording the Charlotte Sometimes video in an old asylum), so I bought it. That book has actually inspired some of the lines on the 'pornography' album, especially in a song called 'a short term effect' – “a charcoal face bites my hand” – that was a nightmare that one of the patients had. He would draw people in charcoal and they would come to live in his dreams". (Flexipop 1982)

Robert on 'Lost'.....

Lyrically it was informed by a book that I read in the summer of 2002 called 'The View From Nowhere' by a modern philosopher called Thomas Nagel, which is essentially the dilemma of how to become self aware if you lack the belief that there is such a thing as self.
XFM June 2004

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Robert's favourite books Oct 30, 2017 2:48:29 GMT 1 mrslovecats likes this

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Post by rubyali on Oct 30, 2017 2:48:29 GMT 1

Disintegration partly on this poem

Party Piece by Brian Patten

He said:

'Let's stay here
Now this place has emptied
And make gentle pornography with one another,
While the partygoers go out
And the dawn creeps in,
Like a stranger.

Let us not hesitate
Over what we know
Or over how cold this place has become,
But lets unclip our minds
And let tumble free
The mad, mangled crocodile of love.'

So they did,
There among the woodbines and guinness stains,
And later he caught a bus and she a train
And all there was between them then
was rain.

rubyali Seventeen Seconds member Posts: 69	Robert's favourite books Oct 30, 2017 2:50:20 GMT 1 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rubyali on Oct 30, 2017 2:50:20 GMT 1 A Foolish Arrangement inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Christabel Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonais Before Three might be inspired by The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour by Edgar Allan Poe?
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At Night by this short Kafka piece

At Night

Deeply lost in the night. Just as one sometimes lowers one's head to reflect, thus to be utterly lost in the night. All around people are asleep. It's just play acting, an innocent self-deception, that they sleep in houses, in safe beds, under a safe roof, stretched out or curled up on mattresses, in sheets, under blankets; in reality they have flocked together as they had once upon a time and again later in a deserted region, a camp in the open, a countless number of men, an army, a people, under a cold sky on cold earth, collapsed where once they had stood, forehead pressed on the arm, face to the ground, breathing quietly. And you are watching, are one of the watchmen, you find the next one by brandishing a burning stick from the brushwood pile beside you. Why are you watching? Someone must watch, it is said. Someone must be there.

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Robert's favourite books Oct 30, 2017 2:54:16 GMT 1 steve, mrslovecats, and 1 more like this

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This from the old Cure FAQ:

What literature has inspired Robert's songwriting?
Killing An Arab :: 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus
So What? :: An offer for a cake decorating set from the back of a sugar packet.
The Weedy Burton :: 'Play In A Day' Guitar Tutorial by Burt Weedon
In Your House :: 'Gormenghast' by Mervyn Peake
M :: 'A Happy Death' by Albert Camus
At Night :: 'At Night' by Franz Kafka
Other Voices :: 'Other Voices, Other Rooms' by Truman Capote
All Cats Are Grey :: 'Gormenghast' by Mervyn Peake
The Drowning Man :: 'Gormenghast' and 'Titus Groan' by Mervyn Peake
Charlotte Sometimes :: 'Charlotte Sometimes' by Penelope Farmer
The Lovecats :: 'The Aristocats' Film
Bird Mad Girl :: 'Love in the Asylum' by Dylan Thomas
Give Me It :: 'Bad Timing' Film by Nic Roeg
Piggy In The Mirror :: 'Bad Timing' by Nic Roeg
The Empty World :: 'Charlotte Sometimes' by Penelope Farmer
Title of Bananafishbones :: 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish' by Jerome David Salinger
Splintered In Her Head :: 'Charlotte Sometimes' by Penelope Farmer
A Perfect Murder :: 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov
How Beautiful You Are :: 'The Eyes of the Poor' by Charles Baudelair
Like Cockatoos :: 'The Cockatoos' by Patrick White
Ending line for Lullaby :: 'The Spider and the Fly' by Mary Howitt
Disintegration :: 'Party Piece' by Brian Patten
A Letter To Elise :: 'Les Enfants Terribles' by Jean Cocteau and 'A Letter To Felice' by Franz Kafka
A Foolish Arrangement :: 'Cristabel' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Treasure :: 'Treasure' Poem by Christina Rossettii
Adonais :: 'Adonis' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Where The Bird Always Sing :: 'The Crow Raod' by Ian Banks

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