"he entered the forest and the phantoms came to meet him"

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i can't think of a time when this has happened, either. but there's some very gothic weather going on right now in chapter 13 of lady audley's secret, perfectly timed to some disturbing dreams.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago) link

what is her secret?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

Please, no spoilers.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago) link

m., you can find the answer to your question in the first paragraph of the introduction that the wordsworth classic edition provides. a paragraph that you can't help but glance at upon opening the book.. i know too much about lady audley already.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

minoan anti-bra:

http://www.goddess-gallery.com/ggimages/neolith/5480.jpg

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago) link

Chekhov thought this sort of thing a very naff device but its mysterious PULL was apparently irresistable to him, because a slowly descending series of weather moods settles lightly on Ryabovitch in the course of "The Kiss," to the point where I was wondering if spring had turned to autumn in the course of one single tale. Then I remembered it actually had (or was it autumn to spring?). People stayed longer on their visits back then, I guess.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link

I remember once I was driving to a friend's party that I was really dreading attending -- I felt obligated to go, but I disliked a lot of her other friends. On the way there, there was a torrential downpour that was so bad that I couldn't see where I was going and had to pull over to the side of the road for about a 20 minutes until the rain let up a little. I convinced myself that this was a sign I shouldn't go and used it as my excuse for not showing up. I tend to do this kind of thing more than I probably should.

― El Diablo Curmudgeonbotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

About ten days ago I went walking in the woods behind Harry Lauder's old house, amongst its spongiform embankments, which seemed almost to be breathing, some deep and mossy respiration which resonated shaggily down its broken glens—suddenly punctuated by the howls of "extreme sports" adventurers who we actually saw jumping through waterfalls in wetsuits. They quickly overtook me on the path. One of them was smoking a cigarette with wet fingers. They were cocky as all hell. "First day we've been able to do that. Usually the fall's too full, it'd pull us right along! You should try it!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

Don't try it.

― El Diablo Curmudgeonbotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I kind of wondered if he was going to strip out of his wetsuit right there and give it to me.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

Well, you know what I mean.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link

haha Nicole if I had been in the passenger's seat you would have received my "WEATHER IS FOR OLD PEOPLE!!" harangue

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

Surely the most gothic weather would be fog and rolling mist on barren landscapes?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

I really enjoyed the storm last night - I'd got home before the rain so didn't get drenched, and I've always liked thunder and lightning. So I didn't see it as a bad omen. Then as the storm was finishing I got the saddest and most heartbreaking news I'd had since my marriage ended three years ago. It seemed sort of ironic that I hadn't seen the weather as ominous until I read this thread, and didn't feel up to saying so last night.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:39 (twenty years ago) link

I'm sorry to hear that, Martin.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago) link

five months pass...

Gothic Weather - outside, now!

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Plus: On Saturday I saw a beautiful rainbow -- which you might say was Gothic Weather in a fairly precise, Ruskinian / Lawrentian sense.

I then saw the same rainbow behind Matt Smith at Upton Park, the next morning!

― the rainfox, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

You want Gothic Weather? Last night the skies were shaken by a hurricane, a dark swirling tempest that sounded strong and vicious enough to shatter the panes let alone shake your windows and rattle your walls. The nation's weather seemed invaded by a sudden spectre, unannounced and perilous to encounter.

Meanwhile, I had left my shoes and socks outside. They are still not dry 24 hours later.

― the rainfox, Friday, 19 August 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

six years pass...

It was a dark and stormy night...

I discovered a patch of Ancient Woodland less than a mile from my house! It started snowing just as I entered the forest, like a reflection of my own wonder and joy at the discovery.

Also, P-Celtic grammar is so amazing. Did you know they count in base 20?

I'm gonna go draw some trees.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link

meanwhile the meteorological men of the world are becoming much more slutty at their news desks - call it global warming of the pants

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link

ten years pass...

wildly gothic burst of weather suddenly lol

in this order: thunder, crash of window, rain in thick pluming curtains of mist, lightning

my plan to go buy painkillers is on hold

― mark s, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 14:25 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

https://i.imgur.com/TYZlNh3.png

― mark s, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 12:45 (eleven months ago) link

ps i misremembered the intertitle this thread is named for, it shd be "and when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him"

(even tho he does also enter a forest at that point)

― mark s, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 12:46 (eleven months ago) link

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