04-07-2012, 07:06 AM
Though she deserved to be at least a little bit murdered for her mangling of punctuation alone, I suspect that there's something to your theory of murder as a more romantic option to, say, persistent haemorrhaging of internal organs until the entire contents of the body explodes out one's available orifices.
Somehow (though the subject link is not direct), I find the image of Miss Dickinson throwing back a quilt and inviting anyone to have their wicked way dreadfully incongruous. Making the gentleman a cup of tea and offering the use of a lantern to hold those murderous dark shadows at bay during the long walk home, perhaps. Maybe even -- gasp! -- unfastening the clasp at the very topmost of her flannel shirt to allow a brief glimpse of her delicate Adam's apple...
Somehow (though the subject link is not direct), I find the image of Miss Dickinson throwing back a quilt and inviting anyone to have their wicked way dreadfully incongruous. Making the gentleman a cup of tea and offering the use of a lantern to hold those murderous dark shadows at bay during the long walk home, perhaps. Maybe even -- gasp! -- unfastening the clasp at the very topmost of her flannel shirt to allow a brief glimpse of her delicate Adam's apple...
It could be worse