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OLIVIA Are you a comedian? VIOLA No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very fangs of malice I swear, I am not that I play. Are you the lady… Read More »Twelfth Night Act One – The Fascination of Sudden Connection: 'What are you? What would you?'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImW2sqzZNmQ&mode=related&search= Se do bheatha a bhean ba leanmhar!B´e ar gcreach tu bheith i ngeibhinn,Do dhuiche bhrea i seilbh meirleach´S tu diolta leis na Ghallaibh. [Chorus:]Oro, se do bheatha ´bhaile!Oro, se… Read More »Sinead O'Connor: Oro se do bheatha 'bhaile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCLj9eD7U30&mode=related&search= She moves like she don’t care Smooth as silk Cool as air Oooh it makes you wanna’ cry She doesn’t know your name and your heart beats like… Read More »Maria: Blondie's Resurrection Hymn!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxtBAkmfd1U All my life I’ve been waitingFor you to bring a fairytale my way Been livin in a fantasy without meaning It’s not okay I don’t feel safe I Don’t… Read More »Anastacia : Left Outside Alone
The older she gets,the more she awakeswith somebody’s face strewn in her headlike petals which once made a flower. What everyone doesis sit by a deskand stare at the view,… Read More »Crush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hskKIsf-PAg&mode=related&search= Age cannot wither these guys! First remember them bursting into Waterloo at the only Euro Vision ever worth finding on your TV set! Would always listen extra atttentively to… Read More »ABBA !! MAMA MIA!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vhaYayqqGVU&mode=related&search= ‘Dusty in Memphis is one of the best Albums ever ever made. Deep voiced Dusty takes us through the swampy, lazy heat of the South like a Gospel Singer… Read More »Dusty : Son of a Preacher man!
Like a damsel in distressI’m stressing youMy castle became my dungeon cuz I’m longing for youI’m Feeling strong for yaYou’re my knight in shining armorSee your face in the silver… Read More »Alicia keys: Dragon Days
your eyes unnervingly lovely through time.
We grew still and looked at each other. It seemed incredibly dangerous to look into each other’s eyes, but we were doing it. For how long can you behold another person?… Read More »Miranda July: Ten True Things
PrologueSunday 18 February 2001 The Rubin family, everybody agrees, seems doomed to happiness. Today is the wedding day of Leo, the first-born. He is thirtyfour; he has not hurried,… Read More »Charlotte Mendelson: When we were bad
‘The air is shrivelled. No one can breathe. ‘ ‘Helena sees her life in sections, like a tape-worm.’ This seems to me acutely perceptive writing. Mendelson has truly… Read More »Daughters of Jerusalem: Charlotte Mendelson
Too proud to die; broken and blind he diedThe darkest way, and did not turn away,A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride On that darkest day, Oh, forever… Read More »Dylan Thomas: Elegy
‘You’ve made me afraid and ashamed of you,’ he continued; ‘I’ll not come here again!’ Her eyes began to glisten and her lids to twinkle. ‘And you told a deliberate… Read More »The cat and the mouse in Wuthering Heights
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,Silence the pianos and with muffled drumBring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let… Read More »W. H. Auden: Funeral Blues
Your first smile. Today. Always. Always.
He took a seat opposite Catherine, who kept her gaze fixed on him as if she feared he would vanish were she to remove it. He did not raise his… Read More »Wuthering Heights: Warring Registers of Possession?
Wondering, they paused before lost flowers.
In your voice: castles, tournaments, touch….
Your hands. That smile. My love.
‘I wish I could hold you,’ she continued, bitterly, ’till we were both dead! I shouldn’t care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn’t you suffer?… Read More »Chapter 15 Wuthering Heights: Love as glamorous hell?
angels touching spaces between thoughts
Lear is primarily a text about identity: specifically a text about disorientation and identity; about blindly losing one’s way and finding it again; about failing to listen carefully; about the… Read More »King Lear: Who is it that can tell me who I am?
Love After Love The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s… Read More »Derek Walcott: Love after Love
La la la, la la lala, La la la, la la lala,La la la, la la lala,La la la, la la lala. I just can’t get you out of my… Read More »Kylie: Can't get you out of my head!!
”Freewheeling with angels ravishes dry hearts.”
Cold turkey never stops the love…
The suns rays blitzed our reddening bodies: leaving us with glowing arms and foreheads. The rods, each cast out, were quivering with the strong undercurrent dragging our weights… Read More »Joe: Fishing with Dad
Drawing you that way and this… Triangle, Terrier, star and tree.
