CREAMY ENGLAND. Motor cars, leather gloves, a quarter pound of Mrs Faversham’s extra strong peppermints, Ovaltine, Wellington boots, cream, heaps of cream, cream and lawnmowers, summer holidays in Cromer, vaulting over a stile in a country lane, catching sticklebacks in an old tin can, “Honestly nanny, I never touched them,” piano lessons with Mrs Duckworth, Father’s hands on the steering wheel, sit up straight! Going faster and faster, locked in the cupboard for being rude to Mrs Howlett…
And with that, let us sail on into next week.
I have loved you all.
<3
Now I want custard creams.
I’m watching The Hollow Crown right now and in Richard II there are all these glorious moments of passionate, patriotic men being Profoundly Moved and kissing the Sand and Waves and Earth of England and the whole time I was watching it I was thinking “they are good at acting, because as silly as this is I’m kind of into it” while simultaneously thinking “CREAM CREAM STRAWBERRIES AND CREEEEEEAM EEEEEEENGLAAAAAAAND”
I bought it not long ago and haven’t watched it yet. Now I’m not going to be able to until I’ve forgotten you said that!
Ohh you beat me to it, does this mean this is basically a John of Gaunt/Richard II parody?
I'm watching The Hollow Crown right now and in Richard II there are all these glorious moments of passionate, patriotic men being Profoundly Moved and kissing the Sand and Waves and Earth of England and the whole time I was watching it I was thinking "they are good at acting, because as silly as this is I'm kind of into it" while simultaneously thinking "CREAM CREAM STRAWBERRIES AND CREEEEEEAM EEEEEEENGLAAAAAAAND"
The only thing I could think of was:
“My dear, I could hardly keep still in my chair. I wanted to dash out of the house and leap in a taxi and say, “Take me to Charles’s unhealthy pictures.” Well, I went, but the gallery after luncheon was so full of absurd women in the sort of hats they should be made to eat, that I rested a little–I rested here with Cyril and Tom and these saucy boys. Then I came back at the unfashionable time of five o’clock, all agog, my dear; and what did I find? I found, my dear, a very naughty and very successful practical joke. It reminded me of dear Sebastian when he liked so much to dress up in false whiskers. It was charm again, my dear, simple, creamy English charm, playing tigers.”
So you’re saying the sketch above is about 5% exaggeration.
I would that I had more thumbs up to give for Anthony Blanche.
15 -year-old me and now-me don’t agree completely about much, but we both agree that Anthony Blanche is one of the most underrated and underappreciated characters in literature.
The only thing I could think of was:
"My dear, I could hardly keep still in my chair. I wanted to dash out of the house and leap in a taxi and say, "Take me to Charles's unhealthy pictures." Well, I went, but the gallery after luncheon was so full of absurd women in the sort of hats they should be made to eat, that I rested a little–I rested here with Cyril and Tom and these saucy boys. Then I came back at the unfashionable time of five o'clock, all agog, my dear; and what did I find? I found, my dear, a very naughty and very successful practical joke. It reminded me of dear Sebastian when he liked so much to dress up in false whiskers. It was charm again, my dear, simple, creamy English charm, playing tigers."
So you're saying the sketch above is about 5% exaggeration.
‘And shall Jerusalem be builded here on England’s green and pleasant land.’ No! Leave it where it fucking is! It’s in Jerusalem. It’s weird, we sing it. You know if you’ve ever sung a hymn you don’t pay attention to the stuff but it’s saying, “And we’re going to build it here…”It’s all… What is it, Jerusalem 2? The sequel? Fucking leave it there, otherwise people will wake up in Jerusalem and they’ll go, “What? Where? Where?”
Speaking of The Fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4VdcMXVO_g
Not only that, but the proposed tools for building Jerusalem in England are: (1) a bow of burning gold (2) some arrows of desire (3) some spears (4) a chariot of fire (5) a sword. These don’t seem like the most practical pieces of equipment for urban construction. Most of them are weapons and two of them are on fire.
(But despite not really making sense, Jerusalem still sounds awesome.)
'And shall Jerusalem be builded here on England's green and pleasant land.' No! Leave it where it fucking is! It's in Jerusalem. It's weird, we sing it. You know if you've ever sung a hymn you don't pay attention to the stuff but it's saying, "And we're going to build it here…"It's all… What is it, Jerusalem 2? The sequel? Fucking leave it there, otherwise people will wake up in Jerusalem and they'll go, "What? Where? Where?"
Speaking of The Fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4VdcMXVO_g
15 -year-old me and now-me don't agree completely about much, but we both agree that Anthony Blanche is one of the most underrated and underappreciated characters in literature.
Why am I thinking of John of Gaunt just now…
Speaking of Welshmen, there is a lot of Under Milkwood in that delivery. Tiddlers in a jam jar. I never said what she said I never. Oh, my dead dears.