Ben Whishaw reads Wilfred Owen’s poem “The Letter,” from BBC’s The War Poetry of Wilfred Owen 2006 broadcast.
With B.E.F. June 10. Dear Wife,
(O Blast this pencil. ‘Ere, Bill, lend’s a knife.)
I’m in the pink at present, dear.
I think the war will end this year.
We don’t see much of them square’eaded ‘Uns.
We’re out of harm’s way, not bad fed.
I’m longing for a taste of your old buns.
(Say, Jimmie, spare’s a bite of bread.)
There don’t seem much to say just now.
(Yer what? Then don’t, yer ruddy cow!
And give us back me cigarette!)
I’ll soon be ‘ome. You mustn’t fret.
My feet’s improvin’, as I told you of.
We’re out in rest now. Never fear.
(VRACH! By crumbs, but that was near.)
Mother might spare you half a sov.
Kiss Nell and Bert. When me and you -
(Eh? What the ‘ell! Stand to? Stand to!
Jim give’s a hand with pack on, lad.
Guh! Christ! I’m hit. Take ‘old. Aye, bad.
No, damn your iodine. Jim? ‘Ere!
Write my old girl, Jim, there’s a dear.)
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John: I had such a dream last night. I was floating above the trees with my lips connected to those of a beautiful figure, for what seemed like an age. Flowery treetops sprang up beneath us, and we rested on them with the lightness of a cloud.
Fanny: Who was the figure?
John: I must have had my eyes closed, because I can’t remember.
Fanny: And yet, you remember the treetops.
John: Not so well as I remember the lips.
Fanny: Whose lips? Were they my lips?
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WHAT prince form :(((((
Why He’s Hot:
- Ben Whishaw is a phenomenal actor. He’s given amazing performances in Bright Star, Perfume, and I’m Not There. Oh, and he’s the youngest actor ever to play Hamlet on stage. Talent = hot.
- Have you seen him in an interview? He looks like he wants to get sucked into a black hole. Aw. He also thinks about what he’s going to say way too intensely, causing long pauses in which his eyes smolder like two pools of chocolate. Yes, this is adorable.
- His hair is pretty much epic. Be it close cut, 20s style, or sort of wtf-ish, his it is constantly doing awesome things that I’m sure he is blissfully unaware of. Yay.
- He is in an illicit love affair with Matthew Goode. OK, maybe not, but the end of this scene in Brideshead Revisited certainly puts the imagination into overdrive.
- He’s the only person in the world who manages to make sketchiness look sexy. He’s always playing strangely attractive weirdos, and in this interview he’s somehow adorable whilst saying that his favorite part of the movie Oliver! is “When Nancy gets murdered?” …Of course it is, Ben. Of course it is.
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