Sometimes before my roommate and I go to sleep, we talk and talk into the night and get carried away in our imaginations because it is so late and we are drowsy and tired. Some of these conversations tend to be the most out of place and yet articulate insights into each other and ourselves.
For instance, the other night I found out that her father is a hot shot for a health insurance company AND a pastor. What are the odds of those two careers crossing paths? I thought it was quite extraordinary and grand. After the background revelations, we got to the amazing fact that she has watched Beauty and the Beast so many times that she knows all of the words by heart.
"Prove it" I said.
And she did.
Starting two nights ago and finishing last night, she recited the whole movie, scene by scene, song by song, with sound affects and all.
My head began to wander, I got lost in the fairy tale of a beast and a beautiful French maiden so in love with books and characters and life that she wants more than this provincial life, and she gets it by falling in love with a beast.
It was the best lullaby that i have heard, a little better than the one time she told me the story of Beowulf.
When she was done she asked me if I could recite a movie, and I lullabied her to sleep with the sweet sweet words of Dumb and Dumber.
Goodnight fair maidens, beasts and dumb people all over the world.
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