Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown?
Jan. 17th, 2005 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI've got a birthday coming up. It's not a round figure one, so I'm not making a deal of fuss. Actually, even if it was a round figure one I'd want to keep things low-key. Once you're past 50 the only birthday that's worth jumping up and down about is your 100th.
I used to take my body for granted. Now I'm acutely aware of its frailty.
And its unreality.
So what is it? A column of water stiffened with carbon and calcium and other elements. Or, as Webster put it, "a little crudded milk, fantastical puff-paste."
It ain't me.
(Babe)
It's this thing I'm using while I work my passage through this heavy dimension. It's like a space suit or a diving suit. If I'm lucky it has another 20 or 30 years wear in it.
We'll see. But every birthday brings it closer to systems failure and the awfully big adventure.
Detachment, that's the thing to be working at when you get past 50. I like it here, but I'm hoping they won't have to pry my fingers loose at the end.
I had a flying dream last night. I said, "look, this is how it's done," spread my arms like dicky-bird wings and took off for the ceiling.
Can't do it now, but one day maybe.
Something to look forward to.
I used to take my body for granted. Now I'm acutely aware of its frailty.
And its unreality.
So what is it? A column of water stiffened with carbon and calcium and other elements. Or, as Webster put it, "a little crudded milk, fantastical puff-paste."
It ain't me.
(Babe)
It's this thing I'm using while I work my passage through this heavy dimension. It's like a space suit or a diving suit. If I'm lucky it has another 20 or 30 years wear in it.
We'll see. But every birthday brings it closer to systems failure and the awfully big adventure.
Detachment, that's the thing to be working at when you get past 50. I like it here, but I'm hoping they won't have to pry my fingers loose at the end.
I had a flying dream last night. I said, "look, this is how it's done," spread my arms like dicky-bird wings and took off for the ceiling.
Can't do it now, but one day maybe.
Something to look forward to.
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Date: 2005-01-17 12:33 pm (UTC)Ailz and I were talking about who we'd most like to have seen in Stewart's role and she suggested James Mason. Ah, yes!
Poor Mrs Wilson. Actually I think she gives what is probably the best performance in the film.
Both films gain some of their charge from "it" being unmentionable. If they were remade today you'd lose that dimension, but maybe gain others.
I'd love to see a contemporary movie about a gay star who tries to pass as straight.