Still…
The past week has been delightfully warm, sunny and dry here
in Blighty. Today it remained warm, but was a lot more humid, and this evening
we’re having thunder and showers in consequence.
Rain is one of those classic cocktail ingredients, the effect
of which depends on what they’re being mixed with. Winter rain is miserable –
cold, spitting, nasty and uncomfortable – but gentle rain during warm spells in spring
and summer is quite charming. It smells good and freshens everything. I
remember watching Jiri Menzel’s classic Capricious
Summer once, and what I found most appealing about it was the charm of
summer rain.
2 comments:
My father used to scare the crap out of me by reading Japanese ghost stories to me. The ones I remember most vividly are the one in which a man is invisible except for his ears, and the one with a woman with long hair working at a loom. I'm curious as to whether they are the same type of ghost stories as the ones featured on YouTube.
Certain themes are prominent, including women with long hair, stories set in ladies' lavatories (I was impressed by one which had a woman with long hair crawling around the floor of a ladies' lavatory, but I'm a bit odd), stories set in high schools, and things-the-other-side-of-doors. I've never yet seen one you could really describe as 'Gothic', but I suppose Gothic is a European construct.
Maybe you should try a few; the shorts are usually only around 4-6 mins long.
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