In the Shadow of Shakespeare
“She let the note flutter to the ground and walked out the door. *** They had said little on the way back to London. Aaron asked how far Baines had progressed in implicating Kit within the ensuing religious scandal and how she might stop him. Alice answered his questions with curt replies, and he soon gave up. He seemed hurt, but she didn’t care. She didn’t want to play the game anymore.
And there was always the matter of the play. Always the play. She thought of Bella Mira, and how she ...had been cast in that role in more ways than one. She thought of Faustian bargains, and how the themes in Kit’s writing had come back to visit his life in material form. And how they both had to choose between what was ethical and sane and what was degraded and insane. She felt herself slip into a place that was removed from where she was. Her mind went back to the stage where she was lying. Like the opening of a womb to a new world previously unknown to an infant, only one floodlight had illuminated her prone body. There are faces peering above me in masks… “Lady? Are you well?” She felt the dream dissolve. “What? What is it?” She shifted in her seat and pulled her cloak tighter around her body.MoreLess
And there was always the matter of the play. Always the play. She thought of Bella Mira, and how she ...had been cast in that role in more ways than one. She thought of Faustian bargains, and how the themes in Kit’s writing had come back to visit his life in material form. And how they both had to choose between what was ethical and sane and what was degraded and insane. She felt herself slip into a place that was removed from where she was. Her mind went back to the stage where she was lying. Like the opening of a womb to a new world previously unknown to an infant, only one floodlight had illuminated her prone body. There are faces peering above me in masks… “Lady? Are you well?” She felt the dream dissolve. “What? What is it?” She shifted in her seat and pulled her cloak tighter around her body.MoreLess
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