“We all go a little mad sometimes..”

Anne Carson, from “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry.”

“I am inside you — I am you / or you are me. Let us say to one another: I am yours— and know finally that we will only ever be as much as we are willing to save of one another.”

Sylvia Plath, from “Years.”

You’ve forgotten one thing. Me.

“It [Top Hat] offers you an idea of an exciting physical encounter with a member of the opposite sex that is pleasurable. And the dance to a certain extent is a kind of seduction. So you get these dance sequences where at the beginning she’s slightly resistant, [but then] he does a few taps and she sort of moves forward [and] she sort of mirrors him a bit. But by the end of a number like Cheek to Cheek […], she’s completely submissive to him; she’s striking poses, she’s doing all of those jumps where she’s actually supported by him [and] she physically couldn’t do them if he wasn’t there supporting her in those dance moves. You could think of the dance as a kind of metaphor for sex. […] There’s that bit where she swoons […], and we all know what’s happened there.” (Lucy Worsley and Lawrence Napper, A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley BBC)