Anthony Perkins in a Dress
Strange title for a blog-post, huh?
In case you are not familiar with the name "Anthony Perkins", he is the actor who played Norman Bates, in the original black & white thriller movie, Psycho.
Anyway…I’m currently in the middle of a Dean Koontz (official site here) novel, titled "From the Corner of his Eye". It’s longer than many other works of his I’ve read, but it’s still extremely interesting and thought-provoking, in many different ways.
The point of this post is a passage I read last night that brought tears to my eyes…And I’d like to share it with you.
He yearned for a heart mate. He was wise enough to know that no amount of yearning could transform the wrong woman into the right one. Love couldn’t be demanded, planned, or manufactured. Love always came as a surprise, snuck up on you when you were least expecting it, like Anthony Perkins in a dress…
Although the last line definitely brings in some morose humor, the rest of it touches a deep chord.
How painful life can be for anyone…Love can be a beautiful thing, when it’s reciprocated…You can’t force someone to love you; I hear some of you saying ‘damn, doesn’t that suck!?’ and I would have to agree. I guess the ideal situation at the end of the road - the goal perhaps - of a beautiful knowing sharing Love is strong enough for us to keep trying. The pain of daggers has an icy depth, but we hope that the heat of our passion and soul-depth heart will protect us.
Fight on, lost hopeless romantics, fight on!
