Katharine: Will we be alright?
Almásy: Yes. Yes, absolutely.
Katharine: "Yes" is a comfort. "Absolutely" is not.
--The English Patient, 1996
You see it there, right?
That frantic, unworldly hieroglyph?
Those are the
dark scars left by a
tenacious ivy,
pried loose from the
building's side,
upon its renovation.
In 1969.
Almásy: Yes. Yes, absolutely.
Katharine: "Yes" is a comfort. "Absolutely" is not.
--The English Patient, 1996
You see it there, right?
That frantic, unworldly hieroglyph?
Those are the
dark scars left by a
tenacious ivy,
pried loose from the
building's side,
upon its renovation.
In 1969.
claw marks of someone,
or some thing,
desperate for walls
to crumble,
hungry to get in.
Ivy.
Yes.
Yes . . .
Absolutely.
[Photo of Chubb Hall, campus of Ohio University--
reputed to be one of the most haunted places in
the country. Of course.]
