Let it disturb no more at first
Than the hint of a pool predicted far in a forest,
Or a sea so far away that you have to open
Your window to hear it.
Think of it then as elemental, as being
Necessity,
Not for a cup to be taken to it and not
For lips to linger or eye to receive itself
Back in reflection, simply
As water the patient moon persuades and stirs.
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And then step closer,
Imagine rivers you might indeed embark on,
Waterfalls where you could
Silence an afternoon by staring but never
See the same tumult twice.
Yes come out of the street and enter
The full piazza. Come where the noise compels.
Statues are bowing down to the breaking air.
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Observe it there - the fountain, too fast for shadows,
Too wild for the lights which illuminate it to hold,
Even a moment, an ounce of water back;
Stare at such prodigality and consider
It is the elegance here, the taming,
The keeping of a thousand flowering sprays,
That builds this energy up but lets watchers
See in that stress an image of utter calm,
A stillness there. It is how we must have felt
Once at the edge of some perpetual stream,
Fearful of touching, bringing no thirst at all,
Panicked by no perception of ourselves
But drawing the water down to the deepest wonder.
No longer relevant.
Hello, Iβm from VJC and so basically our lit promos are on Thursday and 3 of my friends donβt have Elizabeth Jennings Selected Poems Text (pictured below) if anyone who has the text and no lit exam on Thursday could get 3 copies from you and your friends and lend them to me either tomorrow or on Wednesday you would save their grades. I can meet you at any MRT station from Paya Lebar to Bedok. Help save my friends! If anyone can tell me where to buy that also works.
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Elizabeth wrestles with competing loyalties, and Philip has an encounter that turns into much more than he had bargained for.
The whole series I saw Elizabeth lied to mostly everyone but Philip, and even with him she never really opens up completely, and the only time they are really tuned is when they share that life, she needs that, he needs her and be close to her but that life? He does not want it anymore, and it's been like that since S01E01.
I really liked how Paige berated her and insisted until she got her to face what she does, basically after the many times she asked them, and especially her mother to be honest with her, to help her fill that emptyness that came from the web of lies they created, and sucked her in. The same one Henry chose to be oblivious about and managed to escape by going to a boarding school. Of course, by the end, Elizabeth threw Philip under the bus too, yes, he did that too, and a lot frankly, he even got several relationships going on at the same while being guilty about it, am I biased? Yes, I know.
I really loved the scene, and I know there must be topics around here but I really wonder what it becomes of Paige after she ditches them at the train station.
(If anyone cares to lead me to those topics, I will be thankful)
This is the post-episode discussion thread for S06E09 "Jennings, Elizabeth."
Philip is on the run. Elizabeth is packing a bag. Oleg is the victim of an unlawful search and seizure. Stan is even more suspicious than before. Pastor Tim is being a mensch. Father Victor is being a snitch. Father Andrei is being an idiot.
Round 1 who is the better spy both are assigned to recruit a asset to their perspective causes which side gets it done quicker they have 1 month to observe their target
Round 2 same as 1 except Abraham is absolutely obsessed with turning this asset at any cost
Round 3 same as 1 except both sides have support from their circles for Abraham it's the continental army for them it's the kgb
Round 4 Abraham faces each member of the couple in hand to hand combat
Round 5 same as 4 except group combat
Team 1 Abraham Anna strong Ben Talmadge Caleb Brewster
Team 2 Elizabeth Phillip page (after training) tuan Claudia that 1 directorate s couple from season 2
Edit the characters are from turn Washingtons spies and the Americans in case anybody was confused
Sorry, thereβs nothing new. Itβs just whoa
...their house always looks spotless.
No discussion
A requested read by a friend. I hope you enjoy
I think most people can agree that Phillip and Elizabeth were not the best parents. It's a fact that they put their children in harms way constantly. But I also believe both of them loved Henry and Paige and it's not like they wanted their children to be in danger.
I think the reason that two people who are capable of parental love could still make the parenting choices that Phillip and Elizabeth did comes from the reason that Phillip and Elizabeth had children in the first place.
Ideally, someone will choose to become a parent because they want to raise someone from baby to young adulthood, and to provide them with a good growing environment. Basically, people should become a parent because they actually want to be a parent, and not because they want the child to provide them with something. Phillip and Elizabeth though had kids specifically because the center told them to do so since that would make the best cover. So Phillip and Elizabeth went into parenting knowing that their underlying reason for having children is about what the children can give them: better cover. Though I'm sure Phillip and Elizabeth love Paige and Henry, and tell themselves they truly want what's best for Paige and Henry, there is probably still a subconscious feeling in both of them that Paige and Henry were created to help them, and not with the purpose of growing into new people. This, I think, has lead Phillip and Elizabeth to have a more utilitarian-style of parenting, where they view their kids as extensions of themselves and look for ways that they can get what they want out of their kids.
This is most evident with Elizabeth and Paige. Elizabeth had a hard time connecting with both of her children, and really only took an interest in Paige's activities (church) as a means of trying to control Paige's interests, and later as a way to make Paige more soviet-friendly. Elizabeth puts in the most effort in S6 when Paige is a means through which Elizabeth can be of more value to the Soviet Union. It's all about Elizabeth's ego, in that it's she who is the best spy, because her daughter is joining the ranks. It also helps's Elizabeth's ego because Paige's spying is going so much better than the disastrous attempt to recruit Emmett and Leann's son from S2. And when Marilyn suggests that Paige might not make a good spy, Elizabeth is wounded because it suggests Paige isn't helping Elizabeth's work, and thus isn't as useful. A non-utilitarian parent would have focused on Elizabet
... keep reading on reddit β‘I've been binge-watching The Americans for the first time since just after the finale. (I live in Canada and hadn't heard much about the show.)
As a gay man, I can't help but find myself drawn to Elizabeth. She's an incredible beauty. She serves an endless array of eighties looks. She's sexually uninhibited. She kicks ass and demands respect. And she can kill you five times before you hit the ground.
She also lives in a "closet," which is sometimes a struggle for her. But she does it on her own terms and always comes out on top because of her own inner strength and resolve.
Nothing but respect for my queen!
...I only wish that she'd had a gay pal who would show up with a bottle of white wine and have bitch sessions with her in the living room. Maybe Andrew Larrick would have if they'd met under different circumstances.
Sounds to me like the label tape of a new FBI case file. We may even see someone typing it to underscore the point set to music.
In killing Tatiana and saving Gorbacovβs personal negotiator from assassination, E (and by extension P) have confirmed their heroic standing in the new Soviet Union (soon to be Russian Federation). As well as ensuring the negotiations prosper they have effectively prevented a coup at home.
E has chosen to support an offer from her country for complete bilateral nuclear disarmament (as she heard on the tape). More still, she has made sure that offer is at least put to the Americans when it would have died with the negotiator. Thatβs of world wide significance.
So it reads to me that Claudia was right, everything they have done in the past is destroyed β but not in the way Claudia thinks. Instead, all their past crimes are effectively washed away by ensuring this offer of nuclear disarmament by Gorbachov is made: theyβre not saving the world but itβs as damn close as β almost (see below) - anyone has got. A lot closer than, for example, Nobel Peace Prize winner Barrack Obama.
Anyway, their children might hate them now but theyβre teenagers β youβre supposed to hate your parents! In the end, I hope they see their parents as many see Stanislav Petrov
If E is doing this for the State, Oleg is doing it for family and the future. He's made his choices and is resigned to pay whatever the price might be. I hope he gets exchanged. Stan obv. needs to see the picture here. Not the ideal place for the world to find itself ...
Conclusion: No one dies, except Claudia.
Alex Jennings acted as both the Queen's uncle and as the Queen's first born son 11 years apart. Just noticed rewatching The Queen on Netflix.
I'm a late comer to The Americans, having just started watching the show a couple of months ago. However, I have been through all 4 seasons twice. I find Elizabeth Jennings one of the more intriguing characters in all of fiction. Above and beyond, all the other characters they have developed in the show, that of Elizabeth is sort of unique in that it isn't very stock, ever changing and yet full of peculiarities and contradictions.
I guess the show-runners started off by using a template that was pretty much stock - rough childhood, deserter Dad, strong mother, brought up in the aftermath of WWII and hence involved in the rebuilding of a devastated country, all of which is prime for a diehard Soviet patriot - which is what Elizabeth is, or was, or is somewhere in between. At the beginning of the show and throughout the 4 seasons her loyalty to the Motherland is unrelenting. Yet when faced with the option of returning to the USSR, she's the one who isn't keen. And it's not just her care for her kids (which is one of the points), but its also he reluctance to give up the Jennings life in the US.
She believes strongly that the US is bad (sort of equivalent to Reagan's stance that the USSR is evil). She is convinced that the US is out to kill Soviets, not just a few, but possibly all (she talks about the US building WMDs to kill them, which is probably correct) and I guess she harbors some thought that the US would be the ones to make a first strike - otherwise why the defense argument. However, given her abhorrence of the US, she doesn't seem to mind having to live here, as opposed to the USSR. She does acknowledge that things are nicer here, but not necessarily better. But if things are nicer, and choices are available, doesn't that, in at least that aspect of things make them better?
Her interaction with, and feelings for Philip are obviously changing. But she sure doesn't seem to have the tools required to deal with them. Other than the one scene in the first season, where she talks about how their relationship is changing, she has never directly expressed (or at least that we have seen) her actual feelings about him to Philip. However, her actions show what the situation is in rather stark ways. When they were in the Contra training camp, and Philip got back to the truck covered in blood, instead of asking him if he was hurt, she patted him down with a desperately concerned look on her face - which I thought was masterly direction. Words weren't enoug
... keep reading on reddit β‘Larry begins playing golf once in a while with a high level air force general with access to lots of secret military technology. Best of all he is not the tightest lipped person in the world. This catches the attention of the KGB who consider the intel this general could provide to be vital.
Elizabeth is tasked with flying out to California and Dating Larry David while trying to foster tighter relations between Larry and the General and then getting useful information out of them. This takes place after Larry and Cheryl break up (Spoiler).
Round 1. Can Elizabeth put up with Larry for an entire year without quitting her program or demanding reassignment?
Round 2. Can Elizabeth make sure there is a strong relationship between Larry and the General for at least a year without the two of them having a huge falling out.
Round 3. Can she get good information out of the arrangement?
Bonus round. Can Larry ever find out he is dating a spy?
We are all Philip and Elizabeth Jennings
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We are often betrayed by large institutions that we believed in
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Our children get older, donβt feel they need us, and move away
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Weβre often willing to let innocent people die to protect our way of life
Think about this the next time you are on a mission.
