Wish Me Luck...
Feb. 14th, 2012 06:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
endlessrarities'Because tonight I'm going to see 'Warhorse'.
I shall be taking copious hankies, because I'm expecting the worst. I finished reading the final Jinny book, 'Ride Like the WInd' today, and that didn't bode well - when Easter the aging pony gets put down, I was sniffling away at my desk.
It's definitely a case of life imitating art, imitating life. When I was a kid, I wanted to be Jinny. Now I'm older and wiser, I look back and see that in many respects, I did grow up just like Jinny.
Okay, so I didn't get involved with horse thieves, egg collectors or shop-lifting kids, but... The episode where Jinny has to endure Easter's demise is a case in point - it was so close to reality that it hurt! Big-time! Because, like Jinny, when the time came for my horse to be put down, I didn't have the guts to stand there and hold the rope while the deed was done. Reading it brought back bad memories, and it didn't help that I've got a picture of Squire as my wallpaper on the computer at work...
One thing's annoying me, though. I seem to have mislaid my copy of 'Night of the Red Horse'. This was the weird supernatural book where Jinny struggles to outwit the archaeologists who are trying to find a 'Celtic' (presumably Iron Age) statuette. I thought I'd brought it over from my dad's house, but... I just can't seem to find it.
Anyway, I'd better go. Have a nice evening, everyone!
I shall be taking copious hankies, because I'm expecting the worst. I finished reading the final Jinny book, 'Ride Like the WInd' today, and that didn't bode well - when Easter the aging pony gets put down, I was sniffling away at my desk.
It's definitely a case of life imitating art, imitating life. When I was a kid, I wanted to be Jinny. Now I'm older and wiser, I look back and see that in many respects, I did grow up just like Jinny.
Okay, so I didn't get involved with horse thieves, egg collectors or shop-lifting kids, but... The episode where Jinny has to endure Easter's demise is a case in point - it was so close to reality that it hurt! Big-time! Because, like Jinny, when the time came for my horse to be put down, I didn't have the guts to stand there and hold the rope while the deed was done. Reading it brought back bad memories, and it didn't help that I've got a picture of Squire as my wallpaper on the computer at work...
One thing's annoying me, though. I seem to have mislaid my copy of 'Night of the Red Horse'. This was the weird supernatural book where Jinny struggles to outwit the archaeologists who are trying to find a 'Celtic' (presumably Iron Age) statuette. I thought I'd brought it over from my dad's house, but... I just can't seem to find it.
Anyway, I'd better go. Have a nice evening, everyone!
