Resolution 2004: dance like a dervish

I didn't know what a dervish was when I encountered this section of dialog from Meet Joe Black, in one of the few times the writers “got it right”.


“There's not an ounce of excitement, not a whisper of a thrill. This relationship has all the passion of a pair of tit-mice. I want you to get swept away, I want you to levitate, I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.

Oh that's all.

Yeah, be deliriously happy, or at least leave yourself open to be.

Okay, be deliriously happy, I shall....I shall do my upmost.

I know, it's a cornball thing, but love is passion, obsession, something you can't live without ...

I say fall head over heels, find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. How do you find [her]? Well, you forget your head and listen to your heart, and I'm not hearing any heart”


So that's this hapless romantic's renewed resolution this year, to levitate (au naturel thank you wery much), croon with rapture, dance à deux like dervishes ... and most of all be wide open to being deliriously happy. Crazy. Folle. head over heels. All heart.

Sunday, Jan 11 2004 - 00:32
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