I have recently been wondering about a motive you may have had in showing us movies in our english class that were not always related to english.
Adrian Nobles A Midsummer Nights Dream I revisted this afternoon for the first time in well I guess 10 years, the music is by Howard Blake who also composed the Snowman and the cinematography was done by the same guy that did The Crying Game.
One I cannot figure out though is Truly Madly Deeply with Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson.... Why? It is fabulous but was there a point? Were you sending us a subliminal message? Or was it that you thought Alan Rickman was quite nice (entirely justified) and fancied some afternoon eye candy, like Mrs Lewis' obsession in Gregory Peck's Atticus (also entirely justified).
I'm trying to remember the posters you had on your wall but I can't, how I wish I could. I feel like you were trying to point in a direction that would be quite fun to follow now, you were quite fun at the time, you let Cicely and I play up, and I probably remember more of Pyramus and Thisbie than any other Shakespeare character.
I also have a confession. If your maiden name was Mary Armstrong and you lived at 28 Prospect Road, Bagnor, County Down, then I have your old copy of Tess of the D'Ubervilles, published in 1958. It has some old timetables scribbled in the back and such beautiful lines underlined throughout;
'The evening sun was now ugly to her, like a great inflamed wound in the sky'
'Experience is to intensity, and not as to d u r a t i o n'
'If it is I you do love, O how can it be that you look and speak so? It frightens me! Having begun to love you, I love you for ever - in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself. I ask no more. Then how can you O my husband, stop loving me? '
I know I ought to send this back, it could have been a treasure to you, it has been a treasure to me, It represents the beginning of my literary analysis. I will send it back one day, just one more read....
Kindest Regards
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