Kate Bush: "Some of my friends loved it, others thought it was a funny interlude, and others didn’t feel comfortable either they thought it was about the disguise of a crime or it was too personal. But it’s not me in particular."
MRS B REVISISTED:
Mrs B's partner is missing/dead/murdered. One rainy Wednesday, the police/psychiatrist arrest/section Mrs B. They take her away... Some time later, Mrs B returns to the house... The mud from that rainy Wednesday has still to be cleaned... Mrs B can't stand a dirty place, it plays havoc with her mind... First and foremost, Mrs B needs her home to sparkle...
Maybe the husband betrayed her. Maybe she killed him à la Dancing in the Dark by Joan Barfoot - Edna Cormick, forty-three, is incarcerated in a mental hospital for murdering her husband. For twenty years, Edna escaped the world by dedicating herself entirely to husband and home. Most people clean in circles; Edna cleaned in squares. So when she learns he’s been having an affair, her sense of betrayal is devastating and literally maddening. And so she sits, silently filling notebooks, trying to find where and how her life went wrong. 'Dancing in the Dark' is a tightly woven psychological novel, which explores the idea that madness is not necessarily self-destructive, and may lead to a kind of wisdom...
http://www.bookclubs.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676978353
As the last of the dirty washing turns in the washing machine, Mrs B finds the mental space to remember the happy honeymoon times... Then grief and regret... The 'washing song' suggests regression, isolation, despair, madness... But at least the washing is clean, gleaming, and reassuringly white...
Kate Bush: "Some of my friends loved it, others thought it was a funny interlude, and others didn’t feel comfortable either they thought it was about the disguise of a crime or it was too personal. But it’s not me in particular."
MRS B REVISISTED:
Mrs B's partner is missing/dead/murdered. One rainy Wednesday, the police/psychiatrist arrest/section Mrs B. They take her away... Some time later, Mrs B returns to the house... The mud from that rainy Wednesday has still to be cleaned... Mrs B can't stand a dirty place, it plays havoc with her mind... First and foremost, Mrs B needs her home to sparkle...
Maybe the husband betrayed her. Maybe she killed him à la Dancing in the Dark by Joan Barfoot - Edna Cormick, forty-three, is incarcerated in a mental hospital for murdering her husband. For twenty years, Edna escaped the world by dedicating herself entirely to husband and home. Most people clean in circles; Edna cleaned in squares. So when she learns he’s been having an affair, her sense of betrayal is devastating and literally maddening. And so she sits, silently filling notebooks, trying to find where and how her life went wrong. 'Dancing in the Dark' is a tightly woven psychological novel, which explores the idea that madness is not necessarily self-destructive, and may lead to a kind of wisdom... http://www.bookclubs.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676978353
As the last of the dirty washing turns in the washing machine, Mrs B finds the mental space to remember the happy honeymoon times... Then grief and regret... The 'washing song' suggests regression, isolation, despair, madness... But at least the washing is clean, gleaming, and reassuringly white...