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bivampir · 1 year

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Maurice girlies (gender-neutral) it's my duty to inform you that a Vietnamese LGBT movie channel have made a fan reconstruction of the 1987 movie, by adding all deleted scenes (which include establishing wayyyy earlier that Alec works at Durham's, establishing Alec's bisexuality, Maurice's beautiful ending monologue to Clive, and many more) resulting in a movie that's almost 3 hours long, and uploaded it to youtube (with English subtitles!) here!

#EDIT: this is not an official version! per someone's request in the replies i feel the need to mention this is NOT official lmao #the 2h20mins is the director's cut #EDIT 2: I DID NOT MAKE THIS WTF LMAO #maurice 1914 #maurice 1987 #Maurice #clive durham #maurice hall #alec scudder #e. m. forster #my posting #3rd degree failpost #mauriceposting

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transsexualcoriolanus · 2 months

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yeah i'd love to bring e.m forster back from the dead to let him know that maurice was published and made into a film and gay people can get married in britain now and stuff, but on the other hand how would we break the news to him that a significant percentage of maurice fans prefer clive to alec from a combination of classism and being horny for hugh grant

#em forster #maurice #maurice 1987 #maurice 1914 #clive durham #alec scudder #edit: i have just been informed that forster actually arranged for it to be published after his death #(and somehow i didn't know that it was actually only published a year after he died)#rest of the post still stands tho

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sunsfawn · 3 months

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They’re of the Oscar Wilde sort x

the quality is rubbish, i also posted this on my twitter and instagram! :) @ sunsfawn

#maurice #maurice hall #alec scudder #maurice 1987 #maurice 1914 #em forster

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july-septembre · 5 months

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bro took it seriously

#maurice #maurice 1987 #maurice meme #maurice hall #clive durham #maurice 1914

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spocks-got-a-glock · 16 days

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When you get so irked by someone saying that "Clive and Maurice were the better romantic pairing because they truly loved each other while Alec and Maurice's relationship was based on nothing but sex" that you end up writing a small essay in a Pinterest comment section (which had to be broken up into 500 character chunks because of Pinterest's character limit).

Anyway, I actually like what I wrote so I wanted to share it here. I didn't say everything I wanted to in the exact way that I wanted to due to the word restrictions, but I think it did the job.

#maurice em forster #maurice 1914 #maurice 1987 #maurice 1971 #maurice #maurice/alec #maurice/clive #em forster #e.m. forster #maurice hall #alec scudder #clive durham #queer literature #queer liberation #classic literature

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holygayrightsbatman · 1 year

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specifically about those annoying fucking tiktok maurice fans

#maurice #maurice hall #maurice 1987 #maurice 1914 #clive durham #alec scudder #e.m forster #jay.png #100 #200 #600

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morrieandlicky · 1 year

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Edward Carpenter's full response letter to E.M. Forster after reading Maurice in 1914.

(The images of the letter can be found here at King's College's archive. Below is my transcription followed by photocopies of the letter. )

PS: 1) "MS" is the abbreviation for "manuscript".

23 Aug. [1914?]

My dear & blessed E.M.,

(I wish you had a name. Why do you always hide behind initials? What do your friends call you? My name is Edward, or ‘chips’!)

I have read your ‘Maurice’ after all, and am very much pleased with it. I don’t always like your rather hesitating tantalizing impressionist style - though it has subtleties - but I think the story has many fine points. You succeed in joining the atmosphere with the various characters, and there are plenty of happenings which is a good thing. Maurice’s love affairs are all interesting, and I have a mind to read them again, if I can find time - so I won’t send the MS back for a day or two. I am so glad you end up on a major chord. I was so afraid you were going to let Scudder go at the last - but you saved him and saved the story, because the end though improbable is not impossible and is the one bit of real romance - which those who understand will love.

I wish I could write more, but I am devoured just now by innumerable things. I expect to be in and about London from the 1st to 8th Sep. - so give me a cue to see you.

Your Edward C.

Transcription of vertical writings on the second page of the letter:

I am sending my birthday reply to the papers on Sep. 1 with a lot about the war in it.

Only a small part of the letter has been transcribed then included in reviews, or different Maurice editions. Which is why I wanted to transcribe the whole response from the real-life Maurice to the author of fictional Maurice after he read Maurice. The entirety is far more interesting.

Below: Edward Carpenter in 1886 and 1897.

Some contexts: based on Forster's diaries, Maurice was first finished in June/July, 1914, so Carpenter did read the first complete MS—with or without the epilogue is unclear since there's no solid proof for when the epilogue was written (though it appeared in the novel by February 1915 at the latest.)

However, since Carpenter said he liked the happy ending he read (and fun fact: the first complete MS which he read actually had a fairly different ending between Maurice and Alec than the published version's), we know that even from the first draft, Forster remained unwavering about how a happy ending is imperative.

More contexts: according to a letter from Forster to a friend, he thought Carpenter was "too unliterary to be helpful"—meaning Carpenter probably wasn't much interested in reading literature. And Carpenter sort of confirmed that in writing "I read your 'Maurice' after all", implying he was indeed reluctant to read at first.

Still, it made absolute sense for Forster to send the story back to the man who, in a manner of speaking, held the copyright of Maurice in flesh before Forster even finished it.

So the question is: did Carpenter know that Maurice was inspired by him and his lover George Merrill? Did he know that he was the real-life Maurice and Merrill was the real-life Alec? Perhaps that was why he was reluctant to read the novel at first?

#edward carpenter #em forster maurice #maurice em forster #em forster #edward morgan forster #maurice #maurice 1987 #maurice hall #maurice 1914 #maurice 1971 #alec scudder #george merrill #clive durham #1914 #1910s

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nyloncurtains · 1 year

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i need people to stop acting like maurice is a tragic gay love story with a sad ending bc it’s not. it is a story of love persevering in spite of the homophobic standards of upper class edwardian society. its about hope for a better future and two queer men loving eachother unashamedly. e.m forster gave maurice a happy ending because it’s what queer people deserve, even though he knew it was unlikely in 1914.

just because clive and maurice don’t end up together, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a happy ending. stop alec erasure.

#maurice #maurice 1987 #e m forster #em forster #lgbtq #maurice 1914 #hugh grant

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muppetbyers · 1 year

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“A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.”

- Terminal Note (written in 1960) of Maurice by E.M Forster (written in 1914 and published in 1971)

#maurice #e.m forster #em forster #maurice 1914 #maurice 1987 #maurice hall #alec scudder #queer lit #clearing out the drafts #mine

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oriondec · 3 months

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Who wants to talk about Maurice symbolism? I’m writing an essay and would really appreciate some more ideas! :)

#maurice 1987 #maurice 1914 #maurice em forster #maurice x alec #maurice hall #maurice #alec scudder #i hate clive durham.

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waffle-bubbles · 4 months

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Something about how physical intimacy was never something Clive gave Maurice, but it was the first thing Alec gave him or something like that

#do you get what I’m saying #Maurice #maurice 1987 #maurice 1914 #em forster

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bivampir · 1 year

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Maurice has the best plot of all time. Are you classist? Do you struggle with internalized homophobia because ur boyfriend refuses to touch you? Try Poor Person Dick! It Will Heal You. and then it does. 10/10 no notes

#I'M JOKING I LOVE THIS MOVIE A LOT AND ITS INCREDIBLY MEANINGFUL TO ME. BUT ITS ALSO FUNNY #my posting #maurice #maurice 1914 #maurice 1987 #e. m. forster #mild failpost #mauriceposting

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rockwellhenry · 29 days

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the first situationship in the world