I love you, but the world's not changed

[marnanightingale]

(Confidential to iclysdale):




"... You force me to tell you
The disastrous truth. I love you. A misadventure
So intolerable, hell could not do more.
Nothing in the world could touch me
And you have to come and be the damnable
Exception. I was nicely tucked up for the night
Of eternity, and like a restless dream
Of a fool's paradise, you, with a rainbow where
Your face is and an ignis fatuus
Worn like a rose in your girdle, come pursued
By fire, and presto! the bedclothes are on the floor..."




The Lady's Not For Burning, Christopher Fry, Act III.

Comments

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

Aww, that is lovely.

[ferriludant.livejournal.com]

Nice, but of course you've noticed, not entirely confidential. ;)

By the way - love the icon. I do notice the slight mispelng: you have "women" spelled as "men".

Cheers

[zxhrue.livejournal.com]

beyootiful! VD sentiment or just because?

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

The most wonderful script in the world! Once in our second-hand bookstore a box of old books came in and someone going through the box picked up Lady and waved it without even opening it, and everyone began shouting their favorite lines.

A castle drafty as a tree!
A longitude without a platitude!

And an improvement someone in a local amateur theatre accidentally made when he forgot the line:
"To make the place we're lost in look as much like wherever it is as we can."