>>5646934>>5646936Anyway too much knife dismemberment shadow tentacles here is the most tender and famous lighthouse scene from Edith Wharton The Age Of Innocence. What is happening is that Daniel Day Lewis / Newland Archer is contemplating infidelity to his betrothed May Welland / Winona Ryder (how could you?!?) with the scandalous Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer, I am sorry she just looks frizzled and unattractive in this film. Please try Batman Returns catsuit version instead).
The Countess has her back turned to him in the pier; she has not seen him. So Daniel Day Lewis makes a bet with himself to approach her if and only if she turns round and sees him before the boat in the distance passes the lighthouse.
It is this scene from the novel:
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"She doesn't know—she hasn't guessed. Shouldn't I know if she came up behind me, I wonder?" he mused; and suddenly he said to himself: "If she doesn't turn before that sail crosses the Lime Rock light I'll go back."
The boat was gliding out on the receding tide. It slid before the Lime Rock, blotted out Ida Lewis's little house, and passed across the turret in which the light was hung. Archer waited till a wide space of water sparkled between the last reef of the island and the stern of the boat; but still the figure in the summer-house did not move.
He turned and walked up the hill.
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The scene is actually reminiscent of a more famous literary short story, by Henry James called The Beast In The Jungle. You would think it has a promising Lovecraft Cthulhu title but in this story nothing happens it is just about a young man who fails to ask out a young lady companion. He just fails at courtship for his whole entire life
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_in_the_JungleSo I wonder if there is a way to juxtapose this sort of tenderness, the psychodrama minutiae inner emotional turmoil dynamics with ASSAULT RIFLES VIDEOGAME ULTRAVIOLENCE SHADOW ARM TENTACLES and create Tom Clancy Jane Austen wife simulation MANNERPUNK. hmmm hmmm
