LOVE, DISTANCE AND OTHER RITUALS
Chai Boil some water with a chunk of ginger cut in slices, three cardamom pods and a sprinkle of pepper. Add tea, milk and honey. Let it simmer until the kitchen smells right. Drink slowly. ~☆~ Have you watc hed the latest screen adaptation of Wuthering Heights? Well, if you haven't, it's nothing to write home about – just one of my favourite novels reduced to ero ticised melodrama. T he 'sublime' (as I learnt to call it when I took contemporary literature) in Brontë's narrative -all those overwhelming extremes, from the landscape to Heathcliff's demonic behaviour, and Cathy's supernatural appearance after death- has been translated into sexual spectacle and visual flamboyance in the film. Character development seems to have been buried somewhere beneath the raunchy scenes on the misty moors, the languishing women in lavish rooms, and the parade of visually striking ...
