Gaslight: the Movie
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Reminiscing Laura Ingalls’ TV sister Mary goes blind in this episode, Little House #84, the two-part season finale. A real tear- jerker, it’s not unlike the Ingrid Bergman/ Charles Boyer film, except that things turn out differently. There is no saving the girl’s sight, for one. It’s part of her TV Destiny. But then she teaches at the blind school, and that seems like it ought to be OK. There are never enough villains in these things. Now drink your cocktail, sweetie. We’re there. |
En Braille The fronds come off a bicycle or tricycle and go deep within someplace. There’s a velvet paddle and gold chains, a soft comb, something you squeeze to suggest hunger. And the weeds grow right by the pond. You approach it from the angle that you find coming off the street. (This is not easy to do blind- folded, but we’ve been practicing.) Smell the flowers? The day is wet. There are fans up high, circulating the room. A sweet poison, which falls. And then this. |