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Sunday, May 3, 2020

Hyacinth Ryder:..".. and this man.. this oh most handsome every so slightly and marginally older man.. he is Adolph Lieber (Alan Rickman).. and he gently and soothingly and with Violette le Duc Virginia Woolf peacableness he .. guided me.. vocally.. he guided me.. with his soothing gentle voice.. with his loquacious voice... he guided me thru the .. thru what was not an agony at all as it turned out.. thru my reading and re-reading and re-reading and re-reading and re-reading of Henry James's masterpiece-novel.. 'The Golden Bowl'... and he talked me how to speak the text out loud in his own gentle inflection and intonation and vocal rhythm and his expert use of breath.. all of it as if it were my own.. my own voice as his.. my own voice.. as.. sob sob.. as .. as his.. sob sob sob.. and someday he Adolph Lieber (Alan Rickman).. he will be my Jonathan Crane.. and I will be his poison ivy.. and perhaps.. perhaps.. we have already been filming.. is.. 'tis possible .. ?.. 'tis possible sounds like Hamlet.. have we been filming.. - already.. ?..."..

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