Yes, always someone dies, someone weeps, in tune with the laurels dripping, and the tap dripping, and the spout dripping into the water-butt, and the dim gas flickering greenly in the damp conservatory".
But by the final reel, sitting in on the pair's mooching feels lugubrious enough to merit its own drinking game: a scotch whenever someone weeps by a window, a shandy if they light up on a settee, a Bovril if they touch on the true meaning of "respectability".
At the new play, a sombre, poetic and subjective meditation on suicide, the audience watches in near-silence: lovers clutch each other for comfort, someone quietly weeps, and, at the end, one person incongruously rises to applaud the cast.
I had little interest in watching "Lion" in theaters or at home, but I knew it would give me the opportunity to freely weep at someone else's anxieties instead of my own.
I had never wept beside someone who also excited me in a way that I could not fathom.
As it was, I simply wept when someone forgot to put sugar in my tea and wondered at my body's ability to function, albeit imperfectly and very grumpily, on so little sleep.
In tasteoutheof the Moon: A Personal Reading of 'Majora's Mask'.
It breaks my heart, and I believe that God weeps whenever someone is made to feel separate from God's love and welcome.
If you would like to receive assistance, pound on the door, weep inconsolably, and someone will be along.
