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Withdrawal Demons (Unknown actors) from The Hobo’s Fever Dream, 1936
VIVIEN LEIGH in SIDEWALKS OF LONDON — 1938, dir. Tim Whelan
sometimes i wish that i could freeze the picture,
and save it from the funny tricks of time
“Just after seven the rain began to fall. Gently at first, a light pattering in the trees, and so thin I could not see it. Then louder and faster, a driving torrent falling slant ways from the slate sky, […]. I left the windows open wide. I stood in front of them and breathed the cold clean air. The rain splashed into my face and on my hands. I could not see beyond the lawns, the falling rain came thick and fast. I heard it sputtering in the gutter-pipes above the window, and splashing on the stones of the terrace. There was no more thunder. The rain smelt of moss and earth and of the black bark of trees.”
— Daphne du Maurier, from “Rebecca”, first published in 1938.
I’ve been watching too much Jojo’s Bizzare Adventures