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An 1887 oil painting of a solar eclipse by Wilhelm Kranz

If I am the sun, then you are surely the moon
my mirror’d mate who occasions upon my domain,
who has her own divine procession and realm
where I cannot follow

Oh that face, that face that I would taste
Is it vanity that I should see my light upon your face?

Visit with me a while once-more
and let others witness from afar our dance, that great pretence they call an eclipse
Oh that illusion of our union
Would that I could touch those hips, 
that I could reach out and touch those eyes and those lips

In another life, in another world
You’re my boy and I’m your girl
But here and now
She’s in my place somehow
And I’m just a ghost

In another life, things didnt end
You’re my boy, she’s still my friend
But here and now
You did what you did somehow
Now she’s just a ghost

In another life, in another world
You’re still my boy, I’m still your girl
But here and now
I buried your memory somehow
And you’re just a ghost

But here and now, in this haunted house
I’m chased by thoughts of you both
And you’ll forever roam these ruins of our home
Knowing what you did wrong, followed by this curse of a song
And none of us move on
And maybe we’re all just ghosts

timetw

I remember getting this out from the local library some time before the movie came out and enjoying what little I read. Generally speaking, I’m not one for romance books but I am for whatever reason a sucker for time travel stories. I blame Terminator 2 and Back To The Future 2. I’m also a big fan of wormholes and portals (anybody remember the Spot in the old Spiderman cartoon? I blame either him or Sliders) but it’s not like I go out of my way to find stories involving those although I dont doubt I could easily find a list thanks to the internet (rule 1 of the internet: you have no original thoughts and there are always people more dedicated than you who have done whatever you want to, thereby making life too easy).

Anyway, I noted down that I got upto page 50 last time before I ran out of time and couldnt renew thanks to the film’s popularity. Finally got it back and I’m about 100+ pages in. Have to say, it’s not a perfect book at all but it’s pretty well done. I’ve read better books and more impactful books and classic books, but this book is the first one where as I’m reading it I keep telling myself ‘I wish I’d written this.. even if it wouldn’t have turned out as great’.

Anyway, Bell Jar has decided to also skip queue and become available too so now I gotta try and burn through this (it’s easy reading though anyway) whilst also Nano-ing. I’ll probs get started on the movie adaptation too straight after. I put together a list of time-travel related movies (thank you based internet) too for good measure. Fun.