I'm watching "A Room with a View" which, although I haven't seen it in twelve years (!), continues to resonate in so many ways. I have referenced it in so many comic strips I can't even track them all down at the moment... but here are four I can find easily. (These are from about 1997 or '98!)
This phrase in the movie inspired me to name a 1998 self-portrait "Young Girl Transfigured" (see previous post!).
This doesn't look as though it's about "A Room with a View," but let me explain. It's a bit from a story I wrote in 1998 about my then-new life in Calgary working as a flight attendant and getting messed up by new relationships (notice the guy I'm speeding away from in the first panel!). That new life had the following theme song: "I'm free - I'm free - and freedom tastes of reality." Everyone should recognize this as a tune from the rock opera "Tommy," the story of a deaf, dumb & blind kid who finally attained freedom!
The second row of panels shows "the tune I was singing a year ago"... back when my life was pretty gloomy and I was dangerously close to joining "the vast armies of the benighted" (to quote E. M. Forster). The lyrics are sung by Lucy Honeychurch in "A Room with a View." So lucky I escaped! Freedom wasn't always fun, but at least I was on the right track!
The second row of panels shows "the tune I was singing a year ago"... back when my life was pretty gloomy and I was dangerously close to joining "the vast armies of the benighted" (to quote E. M. Forster). The lyrics are sung by Lucy Honeychurch in "A Room with a View." So lucky I escaped! Freedom wasn't always fun, but at least I was on the right track!
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