So........
I sit down to watch a DVD - a Terry Gillam film, The Brothers Grim. It’s Friday Night, the fire is lit, I have a glass of red wine and apart from the fact that I’m on my own life is good.
A long way into the film, which I’m enjoying, a sort of comic goth fantasy, the 400 year old witch crumbles to life and decides to blow out the forest fire – started by the authorities to destroy the villager’s superstitions about the wood where she lives a dying death.
The screen goes black.
Black black.
Is it on purpose?
An unfinished masterpiece?
I sip a bit more of the wine, an organic Merlot, and wait.
How do you know?
I press fast forward, rewind, pause, play, menu, titles, pause and play again but everything remains resolutely black.
Almost thirty years ago to the winter day I was travelling through Southern Mexico.
In a small market, I’m strolling and eating hot steamed tamales when I see a vendor selling fruit I have never encountered before.
It's November the first, day of the dead.
I buy some, wander off to picnic by the lake; I cut it open and the inside is black. I open another.
The same.
Is it meant to be like that?
How do you know?
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I'm leaving this bit of Spam here as i think it highlights the sheer fun we can have with the language.
Is it this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_sapote
One of my most cherished bijous is a little "day of the dead" skeleton wedding couple riding along in a converntable. Must snap and blog about it.
Brilliant!
I think that must be it!!
A mystery of almost 30 years solved by the wonder of blogging.
Thanks
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