Okay.. loving this book! I mean whats not to love right? The themes are real and timeless, the passion in extremes, the ending breaks your heart…

So her ghost haunts him to his death and he is driven near insane by the loss of his Katherine and the beauty they could have known together…

The movie is just as perfect… countless versions have been made and some fail where others fly… for those ignorami that have yet to see it there is a heap of versions on YouTube (watch the seperate parts to make the full movie sort of thing) or then there is this clip which i think says it all..

The Heights in a Nutshell…

Or maybe it should be Everyone from the heights deserves to be in a Nuthouse? LOL

Intensity is the heart of the story – I don’t think that could be any more apparent or argued!

Next comes ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Kate Bush.. Haunting in the extreme and a beautiful and touching epilogue to Heathcliffe’s death… Katherine is calling to him from the Moors where they fell in love and she will not be satiated until he is in her arms.

The song on the surface is a lament by Kathy yet on closer inspection it becomes clear that this ‘ghost’ that is haunting Heathcliffe (when taken in context with the book) is more of an inner demon he has. Its the cry of his tormented mind at what he let slip away, the memories that haunt him until he too crosses over.

Read the Lyrics first then listen to the track ~ experience the haunting refrains of Kate Bush with the notion of love requited yet not united. Circumstance leaving lovers bereft off each other… until she dies and he serves the rest of his ‘life sentence’ haunted by the ghost of what may have been…

The Lyrics..

Out On the wiley, windy moors
We’d roll and fall in green
You had a temper, like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy

How could you leave me
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you, I loved you too

Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy, I’ve come home
I’m so cold, let me in in-a-your-window
Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy, I’ve come home
I’m so cold, let me in in-a-your-window

Oh it gets dark, it gets lonely
On the other side from you
I pine alot, I find the lot
Falls through without you

I’m coming back love, cruel Heathcliff
My one dream, my only master

Too long I roam in the night
I’m coming back to his side to put it right
I’m coming home to wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy, I’ve come home
I’m so cold, let me in in-a-your-window
Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy, I’ve come home
I’m so cold, let me in in-a-your-window

Ooh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
Ooh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
You know it’s me, Cathy

Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy come home
I’m so cold, let me in in-a-your-window
Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy come home
I’m so cold, let me in in-a-your-window
Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy come home
I’m so cold

….Until at last she comes for him…

Perhaps we can also see this as a dialog between Heathcliffe and Kathy… the parts in bold are her response to his tormented cries… or again is it his addled brain discoursing with itself?

Am also Loving the song by Kate Bush WH!
and NOW loving the Josh Pike Version Josh Pike – Wuthering heights

Where Kate was Passionate, angry, haunted and determined.. Josh is soulful, sad and vulnerable….

There are many versions of this song and i will dig those up later!

What can I say? I am a sucker for a beautiful sentiment! And a gorgeous voice – and for the first time in years I can actually understand the words!

There seems to me to be a strong undercurrent of Power relationships throughout this novel.

Linton the man who refuses to take the position of Strength Kathy senses in him yet he continually fails to deliver – through some deep seeded resentment of what this dynamic implies perhaps? or through his own lack of assurety at the extent of Kathy’s feelings?

Then there are the poignant and telling words that are echoed throughout everything WH related.. ‘My one true Master’… listen/read/watch and you will find them…

And that is a blog for another time!

okay thats enough on that for now.. i am sure it will be a recurring theme on my blog as WH is my Catcher in the Rye.