Saturday 22 December 2007

Wishes from a Ferris wheel

17 comments:

Melanie said...

Many thanks to Gustavo Braga, our one and only director of photography, who was so kind to give us a ride on the Ferris wheel as a Christmas present and made us feel very happy.

Anonymous said...

Hey Melanie, hey Rosie,

Your Christmas wishes took me by surprise. Don’t know what it was that affected this hale and hearty girl so much that, while watching you on Jumpcut, she had a hard time suppressing the tears springing from the dry wells of her eyes. I guess it was the lucky combination of (1) the turning lights of the Ferris wheel, (2) the rocking-chair merrily bringing you down like real, solid angels from a phantasmagorical heaven, and (3), rising up from their and my prime time, the distorted voices of the Beatles singing ‘Hey Jude’.
Do you realize how happy you looked (and were!) there on that London fair? Going up and down, up and down and all the time wishing the very best to everyone! And all the while stirring up in me the lightness of the days when I first sang:

‘Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As ev’ry fairy tale comes real’

Well, it’s been almost forty years now, it was in ’69 and I was 26, and going up and down and win and lose has been my natural way of living ever since. And looking at love and life from both sides of the clouds I ended up with the idea that

‘It’s love’s (and life’s) illusions I recall’

But then, at once, there you were coming down from the clouds and stepping out of the Ferris wheel into the reality of London anno 2007, Christmas time London, and without looking back, without hesitation, you were heading for 2008, another turn of the wheel, and at that very moment your movement towards the future froze into a doubled picture of myself forty years ago.

Hey Melanie, hey Rosie! In the words of the Beatles: ‘Take a sad song and make it better.’ And doing so confirm my hopeful philosophy that

‘Well, something’s lost, but something’s gained
In living everyday.’

Thanks for epitomizing my dreams and hopes. And lots of love in London and elsewhere.

Joni.

Anonymous said...

From the June 17, 1893 issue of the Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette:

‘Chicago, June 16.--Standing on a chair in a car swaying 266 feet above the earth a little woman raised a glass of champagne to her lips and drank to the health of her husband. The little woman looked wonderfully pretty. Her eyes shone with the light of love and wifely pride. She smiled sweetly at those in the cars beneath her and they cheered wildly for her and her husband. She was dressed in a dainty gown of black, trimmed with gold. She said softly as she made the toast: "To the health of my husband and the success of the Ferris wheel."
She wasn't a bit afraid as she stood there, and that alone shows the immense amount of faith she must have in George W. S.[sic] Ferris, both as husband and mechanical engineer. Her black eyes sparkled deliciously as she made the toast and the bright color shown in her cheeks and the mist-laden wind played tenderly with her dark curls.’

That and, dear Rosie and Melanie, your wishing ‘Merry Christmas’ to the world from a twenty-first century specimen of my wheel, is what it was worth making it for.

Yours forever,

(The ghost of) George Ferris

Anonymous said...

George,

What about marital fidelity? If you do not delete at once this love letter to two frivolous, wanton etcetera twenty-first century girls, I shall publish on the internet my unrestrained admiration for the creator of the archetype of all metal monuments and fairground attractions, the great and unsurpassed Gustave Eiffel!

Without wifely pride,

The little pretty woman with the black eyes sparkling revengefully

Anonymous said...

Miss Rosie and Miss Melanie,

May I ask you with the utmost urgency to remove my last message from your blog?

Please, for the sake of peace.

Please?

(The ghost of) George Ferris

Anonymous said...

Miss Melanie and miss Rosie,

I have to tell you on behalf of my client, the ghost of the late Mr. George Ferris, that he grants you a final delay of 24 hours. If by then his first letter to you, which was written during a brief fit of irresponsibility, is not removed permanently from your calumnious blog, Mr. Ferris will ask me to sue both of you for willingly putting my client in the www pillory, thus causing shame and scandal on himself and his family, not only at your side of the boundary separating the realm of the living and the realm of the dead, but as well and even more at our side.
We do hope that you recognize the gravity of the case. The endurance of Mr. Ferris’ marriage bonds is at stake. He will not accept the imminent threat to a union which, despite some minor flaws, lasted for more than a century and which he intends to last forever. It must be clear to you and to the whole world that, unless you give in, my client from now on will press ahead with the matter unrelentingly.

(The ghost of) John W. S. Tetrapak,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,

Sixth Row, 98th District
Bloomdale Cemetery
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Anonymous said...

Well, OK, George, that will do as a proof of marital fidelity. Mr. Tetrapak is a lawyer we cannot afford. So, stop all legal proceedings. Do not spend any money on those loose creatures (wearing jeans, my God!)in the twenty-first century in case they might draw the conclusion that, one way or another, they do matter to you. Tonight whisper in my ear they don’t and I’ll forget about your faux pas.

Kiss,

Your little pretty woman with the black eyes sparkling amorously

Unknown said...

My dearest starlets,

Not even in my boldest dreams I could have imagined capturing those blessed instants of you in the Ferris wheel would stirr such wide and passionate reactions.

But, then, such is art and its magic: that's how it's made and those are its accomplishments...

You must not thank me at all, it was my own great privilege to be there with you that night and be the humble instrument through wich your natural flair shone so intensely and superbly.

May the happiness of that moment be present in each and every day of your new year.

Beijos,
Gustavo

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