February 2012
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“We lay my love and I
Beneath the weeping willow,
But now alone I lie,
Oh...”
– The Innocents
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I have just had the fortune to see The Woman in Black. My overall verdict is that it is really rather good, though its scares come mostly from a reliance on ‘jump moments’ as opposed to any psychological terror à la The Innocents or The Haunting, though there are plenty of deliciously spooky bits; that the film’s ‘monster’ is effectively chilling and genuinely evil;...
Reblog if no one has a crush on you.
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I get a little feeling of smugness when men and women think they’re being so awfully romantic and mushy by reciting Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 to each other, the one that starts ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’…if only they knew that Shakespeare actually wrote it to a man.
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Lawd be praised, I’M SEEING THE WOMAN IN BLACK TOMORROW FINALLY. DANIEL RADCLIFFE LET ME SEE YOU NOW, UNFFF.
Ahem, I must compose myself. (But Daniel Radcliffe, oh my, in period clothing and looking all pale, oh my, and spooky goings on in a creaky old house, good heavens. I think I might faint.)
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We seemed to fall into the dark, the both of us together, downwards, your arms around me, my arms around you; all around our bodies, bodies as naked and pale as bones, a gloom gathered, the gloom of night; and only the moon up there in the empty sky saw us, watched us, silently lingered over us as we draped each other in veils of our love.
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