I watched the Masterpiece production of Great Expectations this weekend and it was excellent on many levels. One thing however: The actor who played Pip as a late teen and early twenty was such an incredibly beautiful creature, it was, at times, distracting. By “beautiful” I don’t mean “hot”. I mean beautiful in a classical sense—like a great statue at the feet of which you could sit for hours in inspiration, but that you would never dare touch.
I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that such beauty could threaten the fall of a masterful plot.
-M.
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I am an essayist and poet. My work has been rejected by some of the finest journals in America. Fortunately, it also gets accepted from time to time and has appeared in equally fine journals such as Word Riot, Inlandia, Brew City Magazine, and SageWoman, among others.. In 2002, I won the Academy of American Poets Prize for Vanderbilt University.
For no good reason, I possess an unnecessarily dark humor which is why being third generation California Inland Empirian delights me so. My gods are weird. I once won $350 for writing a smartassed essay on “why the wise use of water is important in my daily life”. I am undoubtedly the Greek god Hermes’ special snowflake. I’m pretty sure I got into college via a series of fortuitous clerical errors.
When I had to grow up and get a real job, I decided against it and stayed a writer. I have worked many odd—and I mean odd—jobs to support my habit: PR writer for country music hopefuls, resume massager, WalMart fitting room attendant and switchboard operator, and telephone psychic, just to name a few.
I am also albino. That's why my psychic gifts are so strong. I traded in my pigment for magical foresight, because that's how it works. It gets all technical. Trust me. That's totally how it works.
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I watched the Masterpiece production of Great Expectations this weekend and it was excellent on many levels. One thing however: The actor who played Pip as a late teen and early twenty was such an incredibly beautiful creature, it was, at times, distracting. By “beautiful” I don’t mean “hot”. I mean beautiful in a classical sense—like a great statue at the feet of which you could sit for hours in inspiration, but that you would never dare touch.
M. N. Ashley 