"It's useful being top banana in the shock department. "
Holly Golightly
It's no secret that I'm an Audrey Hepburn fanatic. It's the sort of adoration that some might refer to as an obsession;), but before anyone out there plans an intervention of sorts please be well aware that I'm happily rooted in my obsession of not only The Hepburn but of all things yesteryear. This morning while watching Breakfast at Tiffany's I was stopped dead in my tracks by Holly Golightly's "mean reds" dialogue:
Holly Golightly: You know those days when you get the mean reds?
Paul Varjak: The mean reds, you mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?
Paul Varjak: Sure.
Holly Golightly: Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then - then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!
What if the mean reds can become more than just a passing feeling of fear, but more like a continuation of infinite dilemma? I certainly never wanna get so warmly satisfied within the mean reds that I accept them as a way of life. Oh, the blues are indeed tough to handle, but shaking them off is somehow built into us, a force of second nature....the Mean Reds? Those have a way of sneaking into the structure of things, avoidance for the sake of avoiding. I think the Mean Reds have a chameleon style ability to appear powerful & in control when really they're just FEAR double dipped in chocolate & masked in expensive lipstick...
Here's to leaving the mean reds on the hanger & rockin'some Kaleidoscope heart today
Hepburn Hugs & Ric Ocasek Dreams
xo
Birdee Bow
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