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Lion, Bourse, Bruxelles / Leeuw, Beurs, Brussel – mine de graphite 6B, carnet n° 149, 19 septembre 2025.

VERNISSAGE CE JEUDI 9 OCTOBRE DE 18 À 21 HEURES à Bruxelles, au Sterput, place du Jeu-de-Balle. Deuxième partie de l’exposition « Placid – rétrospective 1985-2025 » – travaux accrochés jusqu’au 19 octobre.

Mrs Danvers. She is immovable. She walks in straight lines for most of the play, it is like watching Pacman or Snake. She nails the monotonous voice. She is barely taller than ich, which is nice. (look, there is important shipping to be done in every Rebecca okay) She wears a black livrei, like the other servants. Her hair is pinned up so close to the head, that it may as well be short. As I said a very Gender performance. I love it. It is a really cool interpretation of her!

Time to go into handkerchiefs. Ich drops the handkerchief scene is present in its full glory.

And gets continued in a fashion.

When Mrs Danvers shows Ich the new room for ich and Mr de W in the more distant part of the house that was not used before, ich in her innocence and concern asks: ''I hope you will be able to hear us?'' poor kind thing. so funny. I almost feel bad for laughing (not really).

(at some point, later, chronology is gone again) We talk about Rebecca's decaying body too, which I like. Because I like my femme fatales messed up.

I also am in favour of conversational openers such as ''Do you believe in ghosts?'' Small talk and Mrs Danvers do not mix.

We get a few Rebecca voice-overs. Ich gets crushed under the Rebecca of it all. She starts to cry, pulls out handkerchief and behold a curly R in the middle of it. I believe gold R on white cloth (don't take my word for it, may as well have been red and I'm misremembering), reminds me of the 80th anniversary book edition. Ich curls in on herself on the floor, the handkerchief completely over her head, covering her Identity with R. Mrs Danvers shows up, helps her up, takes the handkerchief, and of course, snifs it to then wax about Rebecca's perfume...girl.... I love how you never change.

Her next brilliant plan is to hand Ich a plain handkerchief when she returns from rescuing Rebecca's handkerchief. She will bring Ich a handkerchief each day. One for every day of the week. Like preset, with an order to it. She completely unnecessarily adds ''this is tuesday (I don't know which day honestly, could be another) 's handkerchief. Today is tuesday.'' It is so her, it is so funny. I believe Robert was watching this unfold and just commented ''She likes you'' at ich, funny, which, hell, who knows with this woman.

The admiration Danvers expresses for Rebecca is unaparallelled. She loves Rebecca's Freedom so much. Rebecca was never afraid of anything. I'd love freedom too. It is very strong. A good message all around.

We have the white curtains for Rebecca's room of course and a lofty iron window frame.

Ich is hanging on this window frame, crying, her mermaid dress still on, when Mrs Danvers enters and we have the 'why don't you'' part of the story we all love. It was changed. In the way fanfiction changes it. With more compassion. More...well, I'll just tell you. Mrs Danvers first talks of how everyone envies Rebecca. Ich too. She does not leave herself out of the list either. She says it was not she who made ich wear this dress. It was Rebecca who made ich wear the dress. Which is a take, for sure.

She is very hung up on Rebecca. (I know, this is no spoiler) The fun thing is that Ich notices. She asks ''Did you love her?'', ''Did she love you?'' If my French is good enough Danvers replied quite vaguely to the second question since it is Rebecca and with Rebecca only Rebecca knows (my phrasing). I was overwhelmed to be honest that it got addressed this directly. What a dream come true.

When we are at the you are not happy here, you'd better jump -implied, there was a sentence added here which (again if I remember correctly) has Danvers suggest right as ich is about to give in to both go.