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Antonio Castellaneta's avatar

The language is wonderfully unruly, but beneath all the swagger and wordplay there’s real tenderness in the voice of the one left behind. Corinna feels less like someone escaping a town than someone refusing to become still. “So long as the dance never stops” was the line that stayed with me.

Earl Nobdy's avatar

Yes, motion is key

Suzie's avatar

Lovely jubbly

Earl Nobdy's avatar

I’m guessing you were someone’s manic pixie at some point

Suzie's avatar

I have no idea! 😂 but I do know we all have a version of this story, sometimes more than one 🥰🖤

Petra's avatar

Love this! "Tis better to have luvved & lost / A devilish dervish such as she / Than any steadfast Sallysue / Who knows exactly what to do–" <3

Shelley Isabel's avatar

“I’m a crooked politician

Cuz I change so much my face.” Golly!

Ray Sweatman's avatar

great fun..the music of the words.

Earl Nobdy's avatar

It don’t mean a thing if the wordage don’t sing

Brendan's avatar

"Corinna careens to a corkscrew tattoo

She pirouettes the bleeding edge

Where there be monsters

All hope is abandoned

Except the circumference that radiant reeling

Still insists the song is forever

So long as the dance never stops."

-- Best place to keep a radiance lost -- in Mnemosyne's tanning parlor.

Earl Nobdy's avatar

Or else the Brazen Head