Poppy and Rockford were lounging on the couch this evening. She told him he needed to shave, and then she sang this song, a duet featuring “the little hairs and Daddy.”
“No no no! We will not go away!
No no no! We will not go away!
We will stay here forever!
We will not go away!”“Sorry little fellas!
Sorry little fellas!
I have to shave you.
Here I go:
Shhhhhhussshh”“No no no”
“Too too late!”
“No no no”
“Too too late!”
Are “The Magnificent Ambersons”
*I haven’t seen the A&E adaptation, but it looks like they nailed the casting.
**But not, of course, to Sparklemotion. My commitment to Sparklemotion is above reproach.
I had neither seen the movie nor read William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies”
“Lord of the Flies” is a nightmarish, horror of a story. I wish I’d read it earlier. Specifically, before I had children. I know (or, rather, I understand via the ever-so-helpful Sparknotes) that this is a lot of allegory. But still. The very thought of those little fellas lost and gorging on fruit and ultimately run amuck in the very worst way just cut me to the core. That said, I was entirely engrossed in the book. The last chapter is one of the most gripping, tense scenes I’ve read.