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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The Shadow Of The Vampire


reprinted by massive ( 2 people, a guy and a doll ) demand:


“…the inadequacy of our plans,our contingencies, every missed train, the failed picnics, every lie to a child.”

John Malkovich as F.W.Murnau in The Shadow of the Vampire.








On Mothers’ Day we couldn’t go to my mother’s because of her dogs and my daughter’s allergy. Ditto Fathers’ Day.

We used to have picnics with our dearest friends on Fathers’ Day. The fathers would play tennis. The mothers minded the children and laid out the picnic.

We don’t do that anymore. We rarely see them. We’ve graduated to the one page enclosure within the Christmas card.

The failed picnics…and our contingencies...the shadows of the vampire.


2 comments:

Mary Stebbins Taitt said...

Strange words, amazing lines (below, the lapis lazuli).

Montag said...

Yes. I read them and I wonder exactly who it was that wandered into my library and sat down to write them...I possess no wit equal to the task.