l’esprit de l’escalier: that feeling you get when you leave a conversation and think of all the things you should have said
With his books and his clothes and other curiosities he’d collected since beginning his time in London, Aziraphale considered himself a curator of beautiful things. He found beauty in people too, in the way they moved and spoke and laughed.
This man, who was very nearly past him now, almost gone, shook him. He couldn’t understand why. There was an impulse to reach out, to wrap his blunt fingers around the man’s skinny wrist on his handlebars, say “Hello there, might you have a moment to explore why I’ve fallen in love with you just now?”
An adaptation of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2001 film Amélie, as part of the GO Romantic Comedy Event
Completed, as of May 4, 2020. Après la pluie le beau temps.
Merci beaucoup à @omgmussimm et @mllekurtz pour leur aide à “beta-ing.”
i just finished the last chapter, and i was going to make a post, except it seems that if i copy a link in chrome, and then go over to tumblr, the button for making a new post is nowhere to be found. and that's all that i'm going to say about that, because it's much more enjoyable to say how beautiful, and delicate, and perfect, and delightful this story is. i now want to watch amelie again, and then read this whole story from start to finish again, and maybe read the story again with the soundtrack album, and then imagine that i could make art of each scene to hang up.