Well exactly. We didn’t know her. We can’t keep the memory of her alive because we don’t have those memories.
All this does is reduce her to Taylor swift lore. And I don’t think we should enable that
I personally do not think we should be spreading her name around… the screenshot is out there but her name isn’t
Good to know! I have not been on here in a long time
Thank god I’m not alone. Sorry moot
DMs are also always open! 🥰
This popped up on my FYP. I think it’s funny bc it doesn’t like really expose anything. But it’s quite funny how he spells out what PR is all about. Like yeah, the more you diversify yourself 😇👹 …
YES! I need someone down this rabbit hole with me
THE END
If you made it to the end, you're miraculous.
PLEASE add your opinions, readings, thoughts, etc.
*DISCLAIMER* I do not think the author was inspired by TS I think the author was inspired by Sappho...
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Honorable Mention
One wildness
One herself
The shade of one woman (wildness) taking over & causing chaos (smashing the guitar). After running around freely across epochs (eras) the protagonist (herself) has become uncomfortable with her life so she destroys the house (burning down the lover house)
Sibyl: a woman in ancient times supposed to utter the oracles and prophecies of a god (literary: a woman able to foretell the future)
maw of the world = The world will eat you alive
She has learned how to play this part. She can't stop now. She will go on forever.
Stone fissure:
You may have noticed Cassandra mentioned a lot in the screenshots from the book. She is mentioned and referred to SEVERAL times throughout the book (didn't have room for all the mentions here).
Peter
I Look in People's Windows
I Can do it with a Broken Heart
This feels so reminiscent of the prophecy and the constant reference to cages.
She dances within the inch given, even though the prophecy has been laid.
Snow on the Beach
TTPD Colour Palette
Passages that prove to me that Taylor is our modern Sappho
I feel like all of these sentiments have been repeated about Taylor for her whole career.
I had this underlined and marked, but I didn't have anything solid to connect it to, until the anon spade-riddles received yesterday about Lighthouses....
self explanatory
See my other thread about Big Taylor!
Lina is often described as molten throughout the book, which I can't figure out why I feel it is related to Taylor, but I feel like it may be the reference to Te Fiti in the Karma music video, who is a volcano.
The book also refers to her high button boots and her being a poet.
There is a constant draw back to this idea of burning their house down especially in the context of attempting to escape patriarchal expectations A Trousseau is a collection of linens stored away for when she marries
Connection to Grecian studies and literature is strong in TTPD
There is a quote from a man named Leo Taxil from 1894 in the book, but I am unsure if it is a real or not, but it says "The number of women presently in Paris who were taken by other women is scientifically incalculable."
I cannot find the quote, but Leo Taxil was real
A lot of the book takes place in Paris, seen as a refuge for lesbians, spending time in their garden courtyards (secret gardens) away from the prying eyes of men. Natalie was the 'ring leader' of the Paris lesbians, and loved to bring the gay women she encountered into her circle
I can not help but feel a connection to the work here. Connections to Who's Afraid of Little Old Me. Being willed into heteronormativity, especially those of a certain class meaning an upper class.
"that 1950s shit they want from me" and "at least the dolls are beautiful"
The fact that the Lover house is very obviously a doll house.
I don't think that it is book but maybe because of the play. This idea that she was "playing house" and playing the role of domestic partner?
The topic of this Doll House play comes up a few times in the book. It is a real play, just as most of the figures in this book are real people who have been fictionalized.
I could not help but think of a few different lines from Taylor's work when reading about this play.
After she dives into the stage, there is am image of her swimming across the long runway. The was end very specifically on a black shoreline at the top of the stage. We then see Taylor climbing the ladder into her cloud of fantasy.
The ladder has been discussed several times
This line is when I started to feel as though the connections may be more than a coincidence.
A poet who stands at the door sill and dives into the waves of the sea. Swimming to a shore of her invention.
Could she have gotten this idea from the book?
