Firstly: You have broken my heart. Which may have been inevitable with this theme, but still. Wow.
ANYWAY.
Images that stood out for me and were just so immediate and perfect that I ached: Anne singing. Oh God. That just -- there is no comfort possible for Richard having witnessed that.
Robert's desperation: his own eyes were red-rimmed and wet, and his voice sharp. Because sharpness in someone's voice is so often used to mean anger, and here it's despair, and that's perfect.
Richard knowing what he's doing to Edward and unable to stop -- I kept thinking of the quote at this point "The wood of the Cross is cut from the Tree of Knowledge", and marvelling at how apt the whole thing was.
The tomb. Just that entire little perfect section.
And of course, the last line. Because. Henry who's not there and yet is, always.
I love how the three kings are woven in with their foretelling, I love all the imagery of effigy and reality, I just --
*feels completely inadequate with this comment*
It was BRILLIANT. And now I am going to read it again.
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Date: 2010-08-27 02:23 am (UTC)ANYWAY.
Images that stood out for me and were just so immediate and perfect that I ached: Anne singing. Oh God. That just -- there is no comfort possible for Richard having witnessed that.
Robert's desperation: his own eyes were red-rimmed and wet, and his voice sharp. Because sharpness in someone's voice is so often used to mean anger, and here it's despair, and that's perfect.
Richard knowing what he's doing to Edward and unable to stop -- I kept thinking of the quote at this point "The wood of the Cross is cut from the Tree of Knowledge", and marvelling at how apt the whole thing was.
The tomb. Just that entire little perfect section.
And of course, the last line. Because. Henry who's not there and yet is, always.
I love how the three kings are woven in with their foretelling, I love all the imagery of effigy and reality, I just --
*feels completely inadequate with this comment*
It was BRILLIANT. And now I am going to read it again.