Clinging to some idle words spoken by a fortuneteller, she furthermore warns her daughter to avoid "dark water," an admonition that, to give the devil her due, might have come in handy later in Natalie's life.
The opening lines sounded a bit like a personal manifesto for a new kind of lightness (they were, he later claimed, something of an admonition from Rachel): "No more going to the dark side with your flying saucer eyes.
The college library was a high beautiful space, designed and built and paid for by people who believed that those who sat at its long tables in front of open books — even those who were hungover, sleepy, resentful, and uncomprehending — should have space above them, panels of dark gleaming wood around them, high windows bordered with Latin admonitions through which to look at the sky.
A president besieged, congressional hearings, subpoenas flying, an FBI investigation, dark murmurings about "what did he know and when did he know it", and the familiar admonition that what matters is not the crime but the cover-up.
But the Patriarch's gentle admonition — a bizarre note in a chorus of busy scholars and professional connoisseurs — resonates with the dark qualities of the show: concreted sorrow, hard wisdom.
So, it would seem that Margo Channing's famous admonition to "fasten your seatbelts" is the one to heed as we plunge into what could be a long, dark campaign season.
Maupin's characters are darker than we're used to but are as effortlessly achieved, and their easy plausibility ensures that Noone's admonition is quickly forgotten.
Now, the admonitions have a darker undertone, they say.
