God yes, I'm still weeping just thinking about it.
I loved the point you made in your journal about the alcoholism, very apt. I did get the impression that Ellen knew what was in the cup when she said she could "do with a drink," she seemed close enough to have at least an idea what Sam and her husband were talking about. I also thought the death by poisin had a ritual aspect to it as if it were one of the standard execution methods like hemlock in Ancient Greece. But being a big softie at heart I probably just like the idea that she took the matter out of his hands for him in the end.
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Date: 2006-10-22 03:32 pm (UTC)I loved the point you made in your journal about the alcoholism, very apt. I did get the impression that Ellen knew what was in the cup when she said she could "do with a drink," she seemed close enough to have at least an idea what Sam and her husband were talking about. I also thought the death by poisin had a ritual aspect to it as if it were one of the standard execution methods like hemlock in Ancient Greece. But being a big softie at heart I probably just like the idea that she took the matter out of his hands for him in the end.