Flowers for Wendy
Man, I haven't been here in a while.
Just stopping in to post this monolgue from A Bit of Fry and Laurie, a brilliant British comedy show. This particular sketch is a parody of all those heavy-handed horror anthology programs.
"Between imagination and desire, between reality and ambition, between what is known and what is feared, between purpose and despair, between sense and shite, between the visible world and the inner world that straddles the curtain between what we know and what we think we suspect hangs a dark vale that waves gently between the beckoning finger drawing us into the world of what could be and what never couldn’t be impossible to dread . . . or do they?
Perhaps it isn’t. Maybe we were only dreaming. Perhaps the answers can be found in that other realm that lies between the foundry of the heart and the sweaty laundry room of the imagination, where the only rhythms are the smiles of the forgotten winter and the incessant beating of the frightened human thigh we call fear.
Tonight’s tale must give us pause. It is called “Flowers for Wendy,” but mightn’t it have been called “You Have Been Warned”?
. . .
No, it might not.
But when your life is a perilous yo-yo, eaten by destiny’s right hand, when fate lights the cigarette, when chance plays the trumpet not very well and hazard deals the cards from the bottom of your aunt, then you must expect the unexpected.
Good night.
. . .
If you can. "
You can find it on YouTube under "A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Gelliant Gutfright."