![]() ![]() So, it took me two weeks to read Possession. Technically, the two sentences are separated by several paragraphs (which is why I put in the ellipses), and a part of the quote they wrote down (“nor can I resist you,” which follows “I cannot let you burn me up”) exists only in the movie version. Interesting point: the Stylist list that I’ve been reading from actually mistook this quote from the quote in the movie, and transcribed it wrong. Romantic Quote: “I cannot let you burn me up No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.” (Byatt 213) ![]() As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire - from spiritualist seances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany - what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas. Possession is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. ![]()
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