Mid-morning. You are almost ready
for Mary Lou to arrive (in less than an hour). You stopped writing because
Jadah was attacking Ellie (twice her size) by running straight at her and
stopping a few inches short of Ellie's face. Jadah is all perked up ready to be
chased but Ellie just sits, waiting for Carol to open the door after her shower
so she can go sit in the puddles at the bottom of the shower.
It
is just funny to see. Jadah likes to stand/sit on the top of the staircase railing
because she knows Ellie is too big to get up on the railing without falling off
to the first floor. Carol gets nervous when Jadah is up there. Jadah sometimes
stands on her back to feet on the railing and stretches her body with her front
paws high on the wall. Scares me too. Jadah fell once a couple of years ago but
hasn't fallen since as far as we know. Ellie gets her way too; by shear size
she'll move Jadah out of a comfy spot just because. They are characters. The other day we heard commotion by the
bottom steps. Snarling and hissing and the like, then ten minutes later they
are up in the bedroom (because we were) and Ellie walked over and gave Jadah a
nose kiss (which is unprecedented for Ellie). -- Ellie was finally provoked and
the two headed on a chase. Jadah likes being chased because she is so much
faster and it makes Ellie mad because she can't be faster herself, which I think
is Jadah's point -- making Ellie feel bad at her own game. As far as we know
they have never caused each other any physical damage. It's all show and one-upmanship.
(0958)
A lot of people play just like those cats,
boy, show and one-upmanship. - Post. Amorella
You are at the Streets of Westchester waiting for Carol
and Mary Lou who are shopping at Chico's. This is after your seeing the
wonderful film, Quartet. Splendid cast of great actresses and actors,
beautiful directing, music and camera work and an over the top character study on
growing old with as much honesty and enchantment as at all probable for an
aging group of opera stars in an old folk's home.
1325 hours. The summer setting was in Buckinghamshire. The
old folk's home for musicians is at Hedsor House. Beautiful facial close-ups
with the camera lingering on the subjects as if they might soon fade away like
flowers in their prime. This is the best light (comedy/drama) character study
that I have ever seen. Bravo to Director Dustin Hoffman and BBC Productions!
Not everyone agrees with your assessment of
the film. Of course this is not a critical review by a professional. The three
of you loved the film though, so along with a sunny day and warming temperature
as well as an upcoming lunch, it has been from your perspective,
"delightful". Post. Amorella
Mid-afternoon. You are waiting for Carol and Mary Lou at
Cracker Barrel after having a good 'down home' late lunch. Later you can work
on the intro to Dead 14. It begins with Merlyn reminiscing about what happened
under the old Oak tree when he first realized how much he was in love with
Vivian. She was twenty years younger than he was at the time.
1524 hours.
Are we going with a variation of the Heloise [Garlande] and Peter Abelard love
story as we were going to do in
book four, The Rebellion?
No, we are not. - Amorella
You sound angry.
You are hiding your heartansoulanmind, your
true humanity in such a question. You know much better. You are not going to
play the dunce or the fool in here, orndorff.
I don't think I am ready for such a story as you are
suggesting Amorella.
No, you are not. Post. - Amorella
Thus my life's most existential moment will be relived.
Twisted into the fiction you cannot bring yourself to do. - Amorella
It may have all been imagination, Amorella, but the moment is real into my heart and soul. (2204)
There's the rub, boy, indeed it is. Here, we will keep the moment where it best belongs, in a fiction and let just desserts fall where they may. You are not alone in your theatre, I have a stage of my own. Post. - Amorella
Mid-afternoon. You are waiting for Carol and Mary Lou at
Cracker Barrel after having a good 'down home' late lunch. Later you can work
on the intro to Dead 14. It begins with Merlyn reminiscing about what happened
under the old Oak tree when he first realized how much he was in love with
Vivian. She was twenty years younger than he was at the time.
1524 hours.
Are we going with a variation of the Heloise [Garlande] and Peter Abelard love
story as we were going to do in
book four, The Rebellion?
No, we are not. - Amorella
You feel angry.
You are hiding your heartansoulanmind, your
true humanity in such a question. You know much better. You are not going to
play the dunce or the fool in here, orndorff.
I don't think I am ready for such a story as you are
suggesting Amorella.
No, you are not. Post. - Amorella
1812 hours. What's
to be done then?
Put down the literary lines that came to
mind immediately after. When you arrive home from Kroger's, boy, and we shall
work our way through the lines between that rest in your heart. - Amorella
On this and these words below my
heart hangs heavier than my soul, m'Lord.
** **
"Hark ye yet
again--the little lower layer. All
visible objects, man,
are but as pasteboard
masks. But in each event--in the
living act,the undoubted deed--there, some unknown but still reasoning thing
puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the
mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?
To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think
there's naught beyond. But 'tis
enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an
inscrutable malice sinewing it.
That inscrutable
thing is chiefly what I
hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will
wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun
if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since
there is ever a sort of fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all
creations.
** **
Don't
erase this for that slip of the fingers, m'boy. You have such a task for your
own good for Ahab you are not; nor the white whale either, boy, so get that
mischief out of your head. - Amorella
Such words can be a lance in their own right. I
shall not be mocked by you no matter your unearthly station, Amorella.
In theatre imagined or real you would deny
me, face to face? - Amorella
That answer is no, in an inner drama I have, imagination or
reality. I defy you, Amorella; but I cannot and will not deny you.
(2143)
This authenticity is what we work with in
Dead 14. Post. - Amorella
Such a miserable condition it is to have such a passion
for defiance. Yet I cannot deny what is true under oath.
And so shall say Merlyn, boy; those very
words "I cannot deny what is true under oath," will end Dead 14 -
Amorella
Thus my life's most existential moment will be relived.
Twisted into the fiction you cannot bring yourself to do. - Amorella
It may have all been imagination, Amorella, but the moment is real into my heart and soul. (2204)
There's the rub, boy, indeed it is. Here, we will keep the moment where it best belongs, in a fiction and let just desserts fall where they may. You are not alone in your theatre, I have a stage of my own. Post. - Amorella
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