Originally posted by: indi52
rashmi, read the article.
confession time. never a darcy girl, me. yes, i liked the tv series abck in the seventies and whoever did darcy was perfect for a young girl's notion of good looking. but even then i was drawn to the strangest ones.
heathcliff.
no idea why, but he excited me. he seemed right though all about him was off. i have vague memories. need to read once more. went to wiki and had to quote this. many a hindi film scene there. way back then, the dark gypsy foundling, with a different sounding name taht recalls the moors the winds the dark wail in the night.
"you teach me now how cruel you've been ' cruel and false! why did you despise me? why did you betray your own heart, cathy? i have not one word of comfort. you deserve this. you have killed yourself. yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they'll blight you ' they'll damn you. you loved me ' then what right had you to leave me? What right ' answer me ' for the poor fancy you felt for linton? because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing god or satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. i have not broken your heart ' you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. so much the worse for me, that i am strong. do i want to live? what kind of living will it be when you''oh, god! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"
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