The Opera Ghost lives.

[Guest]

I received an anonymous gift today from someone in the group of students involved in our last show. It was left with my daughter who has remained quite mum about it (although I'm pretty certain who it is from).

Along with the single rose was a lovely note in painful left-handed cursive which instructed me to have a beautiful day today.

And signed - O. G.

And the letter was sealed with red wax.

My students know of my love for musicals and I'm afraid during our time together I've filled their ears with stories and songs of my favorites, including Phantom of the Opera.



You know - romantic men are out there. We need to instruct our young women to nurture, not ridicule, when someone makes an over-the-top romantic gesture, even at the tender age of 14.

Thoughts?

 

[Guest]

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[BlackShanglan]

That is wholly charming and stylish. The youngster has great things ahead if he (she?) keeps that flair. I agree with you - it should be nurtured. It shows a care and attention that few people seem willing to lavish on anything in our convenience- and comfort-worshipping culture.

 

[thambok]

You know - romantic men are out there. We need to instruct our young women to nurture, not ridicule, when someone makes an over-the-top romantic gesture, even at the tender age of 14.

Someone did nurture it:

I'm afraid during our time together I've filled their ears with stories and songs of my favorites, including Phantom of the Opera.

And...

Along with the single rose was a lovely note in painful left-handed cursive which instructed me to have a beautiful day today.

And signed - O. G.

And the letter was sealed with red wax.

was the thank you. Kudos for teaching something ... more.

Creative and abstract thought have been all but lost. Its nice to see someone who remembers their importance, and even nicer to see that rewarded in kind.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your thoughts, dear friends.

I'm still smiling over this today and have plans to frame the letter and display it with my other treasured items.

It was indeed a young man who sent this (if I recognize the handwriting) and he is quite brilliant and very musically talented. He was also, until our last production, very quiet in group situations. His silent outward demeanor was sometimes mistaken for arrogance, I feel, when it was more just an awkwardness with social situations.

Not anymore. There's just something about being on stage.

O. G. indeed.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

The song...."Hot for Teacher" is playing in my head.

 

[cloudy]

The song...."Hot for Teacher" is playing in my head.

I can just picture Sarah doing that striptease up on the table, can't you?

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Well done sarahh very very well done. As a similar young man with a similar crush on a teacher long ago and far away, I can tell you, yeah you made an impact on his life, and even 20 years later, he will remember you.


to Diana, my art teacher, where ever you are.........

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I can just picture Sarah doing that striptease up on the table, can't you?

Well duh, she is a tramp.

 

[bholderman]

I try to make efforts like that. Sometimes I fail, sometimes I don't. One things that men really do lack in wooing or seducing, is references to the ancients. In my readings, up until 1930 or thereabouts, ancient cultures and romances always seemed to be referred to in some way (i.e. knights in shinging armor, Romeo/Juliet, Antony/Cleopatra, the pantheons). As it seemed to vanish so did an intirnsic form of romancing that appeared in your gift.

A wax seal and rose, etc.

The more its brought back, the better. The more men do it, the more women will appreciate it and give back ten fold. There are rewards for great behavior, I got mine.

 

[BlackShanglan]

His silent outward demeanor was sometimes mistaken for arrogance, I feel, when it was more just an awkwardness with social situations.

You know, I ran into this once, oddly enough with an actor as well, and it profoundly changed the way I have interpreted the social behavior of others. She was at a two-week program with me and many other people working on the same general topic; she was one of a considerably smaller number who were actors, and whose mission to put on a play at the end of the two-week session meant that they already spent a fair bit of time segregated from the rest of the group, making it harder to get to know them. She was a very attractive young lady with the most wonderful strawberry blonde hair, and I think when she was silent and rather withdrawn in most social situations (including meals) that quite a lot of us, including me, I'm very sorry to say, assumed that she was putting on airs and thought herself better than us non-acting, non-beautiful individuals.

It just happened that one afternoon I came back in the middle of the day to a hostel where we were both staying and found her just waking from a nap on the couch. I threw out some meaningless pleasantry, expecting to be shot down coldly for troubling. Instead the poor dear grabbed at that greeting like a drowning woman on a liferope, and was so damned grateful for someone finally talking to her that I was extremely sorry I'd waited so long to do it. She wasn't in the least bit arrogant; she was a charming, sweet person, wonderfully pleasant to meet. She was just quite shy and quiet, and when no one spoke to her, she thought it meant that they didn't want her to speak to them. Looking back now, I see the wretched irony of it; I can only assume that she thought that all of the cliquish snotty "intellectuals" were looking down on her for being an actress. It's amazing how different it can look from the other side.

That went a very long way to increasing my willingness to make an ass of myself at social events. I'm not a cold or aloof person, and I don't want to give that impression. And I want to meet lots more of lovely people like my actress acquaintance, who only needed someone to be willing to take a tiny risk.

Shanglan

 

[drksideofthemoon]

I received an anonymous gift today from someone in the group of students involved in our last show. It was left with my daughter who has remained quite mum about it (although I'm pretty certain who it is from).

Along with the single rose was a lovely note in painful left-handed cursive which instructed me to have a beautiful day today.

And signed - O. G.

And the letter was sealed with red wax.

My students know of my love for musicals and I'm afraid during our time together I've filled their ears with stories and songs of my favorites, including Phantom of the Opera.



You know - romantic men are out there. We need to instruct our young women to nurture, not ridicule, when someone makes an over-the-top romantic gesture, even at the tender age of 14.

Thoughts?

My thoughts...some young girl out there is going to get herself a terrific guy some day...

 

[Guest]

My thoughts...some young girl out there is going to get herself a terrific guy some day...

Yes. Those are my thoughts, too.

 

[Liar]

Aww.

And that's all I had to say about that.

 

[thambok]

My thoughts...some young girl out there is going to get herself a terrific guy some day...

Lets just hope that the wrong girl doesn't stamp the good man out of him, before he meets the right girl.

 

[Guest]

Lets just hope that the wrong girl doesn't stamp the good man out of him, before he meets the right girl.

I'll slap the shit out of her.

Ahem.