Invalid Archetypes – Invalid Fantasies

The Gosford Park Faint

Admiring a beautiful movie’s fainting scene, & envying the fainter.

Sometimes the sight of a sweetly-stocked sickbed is enough to soothe sadness.

Time to tribute this James Bond villain?

Oh no! Did I retrieve all of my clumsily spilled pills?

Three generations of iconic invalids in one classic movie.

Inspired by images of the first lady laid up after surgery, eating in bed, with her husband, the President.

Dreamy convalescing sickbed friends.

Diagnosed by fellow travelers as being sickened by desert winds, I entertain the romantic possibilities.

Fall nesting in sickly soft pink light, wishing for someone to prescribe The Cure.

Wearing temporary shades and a headache after a vision exam.