Thursday, October 8, 2020

Quint Essence



When Wyngarde at window she sees
He tingles the skin like a breeze
Uncanny intrusion
Or nanny's delusion?
His Quint brings a tinge of unease.

David Cairns

Peter Wyngarde (Quint, a ghost) and Deborah Kerr (Miss Giddens, a governess who possibly imagines the ghost) in The Innocents (Jack Clayton; 1961). The Countdown to Halloween has a British accent.

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