I Bare My Heart to You...

"SHADOWS OF shadows passing. It is now 1831, and as always I am absorbed with a delicate thought. It is how poetry has indefinite sensations, to which end music is inessential. Since the comprehension of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception, music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry. Music without the idea is simply music. Without music or an intriguing idea, colour becomes pallor, man becomes carcass, home becomes catacomb, and the dead are but for a moment motionless." ~Edgar Allan Poe

As always, I am thinking of death and just how soothing--yes, and funny--it can be. Indeed, since the turning of the seasons and I see the earth beginning to shed its greenery and don the sober colors of an withering being, the mind turns to lurk in darker corners and, for a little while, we can enjoy the fun of dead things--mummies, vampires, slashed cheerleaders--without being gazed upon as a freak. For we love Hallowe'en. It seriously rivals Christmas in this house. I love to dress up and pass out candy. The smell of pumpkins. And what a way to celebrate the equinox with seeing http://corpsebridemovie.warnerbros.com/. A most excellent movie!

Some must- hear, must see and must- reads for this All Hallows' Eve:

The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe; Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier; Sorry, Wrong Number starring Barbara Stanwyck; The Nightmare Before Christmas; the album The Gorey End by the Tiger Lillies with the Kronos Quartet; the album Tales of Mystery and Imagination by the Alan Parsons Project

Any more suggestions I gladly will accept.