Ballad of a Checkout Girl

Sometimes I just want to fall onto my back and lay in the grass for so long that when someone discovers I'm not home, the grass will have grown so tall that I might never be found, and I could lay there and enjoy my solitude and peace and all I'd ever have to do is stay clear of lawnmowers.


I wrote that last night at work.

Look What I Found!!!

This is from a page dedicated to one of my favorite movies (which is a true story) Heavenly Creatures!


Who was Diello?

Diello was an imaginary character created by Parker and Hulme. He was "a murderous teen-age prince who'd kill anyone who was a problem to him."
Diello was the son of Charles and Deborah. According to Juliet at Port Levy, Pauline thought up the name. Diello was described by Juliet as "an uncontrollable little blighter who slaughters his nannies." We witness Deborah (Juliet) give birth to Diello (a cushion), assisted by Charles (Pauline), who comments: "You're such an incredible woman, Deborah!"

In Pauline's visions of Borovnia, Diello is a plasticine figure who clearly has the intense, scowling features and angry voice of a young, svelte Orson Welles, even though the girls had previously branded Welles "the most hideous man alive" and had apparently banished him from their pantheon of the Saints. So much for consistency. Ah, the vagaries of adolescent infatuation...

Diello's costume has very prominent lapels, shaped in a deep 'V'

Juliet is the first to imagine Diello crossing over to the real world, where he saves her from Rev Norris in the TB sanatorium. Pauline only imagines Diello once in the real world, where he dispatches Dr Bennett

Later, Pauline's visions of Borovnia include Diello more and more frequently. Diello is shown murderously protecting Gina's interests and, eventually, it is Diello who carries Gina off to Borovnia, where he 'ravishes her.' Which, logically, would have been a completely incestuous homosexual fantasy on Pauline's part, since she had been his 'father', Charles... except this is the impossibly-convoluted, gender-bending and identity-swapping world of Borovnia.

Ah! but who was Diello, really?

In the film "Five Fingers" (1952) James Mason played the part of Ulysses Diello, a suave and dangerous traitor and spy. Is this where the girls got the idea for the name 'Diello?' Possibly because, in real life, James Mason was the girls' principal Saint. There was confusion about Diello's name during the real- life trial