A dark poem for a darker night

"I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still." -Rimbaud


I shall not let the arteries

aggrandize for you any longer

battalions of fury

slash away through me

I cannot reach the way out.

These are hard times for dreamers.

"Everything had changed suddenly--the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your life you had been led by the hand like a small child and suddenly you were on your own, you had to learn to walk by yourself. There was no one around, neither family nor people whose judgment you respected. At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute--life or truth or beauty--of being ruled by it in place of the man-made rules that had been discarded. You needed to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good."
-Boris Pasternak

Jane Eyre

Me and my books.

John Keats, Bright Star

Jane Campion directed "Bright Star"-- a film about John Keats. Of course, Nellie, Karan, and I went opening night. Ben Whishaw played a gorgeously tormented/insecure/brilliant Keats and Abby Cornish surprised me with her remarkably riveting portrayal of Fanny Brawne.

I could elucidate on the many beauties and cinematic brilliance this film contains, but I suggest you just go see it for yourself.

The film is the perfect.

Fancy Pants, school of lady things.

Fancy Pants and Sassy Shorts prepare for Halloween.  We got many a distinguished review from the lunching ladies at Cracker Barrel.  So that's all the affirmation we need.

New editions of a favorite

For most people who know me, you will find, within about the first hour of initial conversation, that I love the Bronte's.  I collect Jane Eyres and more enthusiastically and specifically, Wuthering Heights.  I have old copies, new copies, antique copies-- I collect all types.

The other day I stumbled across a new set of classics illustrated by graphic artist Rueben Toledo.  I love them.  The image of Heathcliff on the back cover is my personal favorite.  I wish it was the on the cover.