Mercury (2016)
“In the instant that he shot out into the lanes of cars, I was running after him, shouting, “Stop! Stop!” My love for him was like a skyscraper, dwarfing the danger. All that mattered was his safety. I had the same single, towering emotion when the police called at Thanksgiving to say the alarm had gone off at Windy Hill. You know what happened that night at the stables. What you don’t know is how it made me feel. When the police escorted me to the corner of Milton Street, I saw our house, dark ...except for the kitchen lights.
Who lives here? I thought. For a moment I was sure I’d step into rooms I’d never seen before.
Do you remember when we visited Edinburgh, we went to a pub called Deacon Brodie’s? You told me that Brodie had inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By day he was a respectable cabinetmaker; by night he became a burglar, robbing the people who bought his cabinets. “Surely everyone feels like that sometimes,” you said. “Like inside us are two people who want completely different things.”MoreLess
Who lives here? I thought. For a moment I was sure I’d step into rooms I’d never seen before.
Do you remember when we visited Edinburgh, we went to a pub called Deacon Brodie’s? You told me that Brodie had inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By day he was a respectable cabinetmaker; by night he became a burglar, robbing the people who bought his cabinets. “Surely everyone feels like that sometimes,” you said. “Like inside us are two people who want completely different things.”MoreLess
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