You Know The Furies Made Orestes Hallucinate His Way Through Silent Hill.

[rionaleonhart]

I am supposed to be reading the 1799 Prelude and one of its later (and much, much longer) revisions this week. I have been neglecting this somewhat, because dude, three essays, The Prelude can wait (NO, OBVIOUSLY UPDATING MY LIVEJOURNAL CANNOT, ahahaha oh dear I'm such a bad student), but I found this part at the beginning of the 1799 version and felt compelled to share it with you:

Sometimes strong desire
Resistless overpowered me, and the bird
Which was the captive of another's toils
Became my prey; and when the deed was done
I heard among the solitary hills
Low breathings coming after me, and sounds
Of undistinguishable motion, steps
Almost as silent as the turf they trod.

WORDSWORTH IN SILENT HILL, YOU GUYS. I shouldn't be allowed near, well, anything. Is there anything at all in my life that Silent Hill hasn't crept into somehow?

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

I want you to know that 'He makes good lesbians!' is pretty much my favourite thing that anyone has ever written.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

He does, though. In the sense of he'd be good lesbians, not in the sense of him having a lesbian factory.

I have no idea what James May would be like as two women, for some reason. And I find the mental picture of even one female Jeremy Clarkson somewhat alarming (and gigantic; my brain refuses to shorten her); two would have me diving for a blast-shield.