Reading around themes to pick up characters' dialogue and thoughts for my screenplay. Yesterday I re-read the diary of Marie (Missy) Vassilitchikov. Very moving. What's it like to live through air raids? (She lived through wartime Berlin.)
I have to flee before Safari strikes again.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk?
At rich men's tables eaten bread and pulse?
Unarmed, faced danger with a heart of trust?
And loved so well a high behaviour,
In man or maid, that thou from speech refrained,
Nobility more nobly to repay?
O, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I'll save it before Safari eats it.
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