Basically one of my favourite monologues in theatre. So sad, poor Moritz :(
Imagine having someone miss you, yearn for your presence. They think of you so fondly, find pieces of you hidden in their favourite novels, and tucked away inside the prettiest songs. To them, you are the dark and comforting embrace of a storm, the gentle caress of a dream. A friend, a lover, whomever they may be, they make you understand the word ‘love’.
from Virginia Woolf’s diaries, February 27th, 1926
O to receive an anonymous love letter on perfumed paper, filled with romantic declarations and scraps of poetry
here's a proposal, a film about the Romantics starring the cast of 2010s snl.
Kristen Wiig as Mary Shelley, John Mulaney as Percy Shelley, Bill Hader as Lord Byron, Pete Davidson (in a wig) as John Keats (I'd pay to see that tbh) and Vanessa Bayer as Claire Clairmont
bonus points for Nick Kroll as John Polidori and Seth Meyers as Wordsworth
OW
im a romantic but the plot twist is that im unlovable
i missed this feeling... ur favorite band putting out a new song and listening to it all day... softly singing shiver while making tea in the evening... remember Pete saying we've always believed in quite an old fashioned way, in songs
from Mary Shelley’s preface to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851), Frankenstein, manuscript, MS. Abinger c.56, fols. 20v – 21r, 1816 – 1817. The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.