The Princess Bride & mawwiage

There are few movies I'll watch, fewer still that I'll watch twice, and even fewer that I'll rummage through a Walgreen's/Wal-Mart/Kroger movie bin looking for a copy. 

The Princess Bride is one of the rare movies that I've seen, watched more than once, and rummaged through all sorts of places to find a copy. So smart. So good. So quotable.

Inconceivable. 

Why is that?

Was it the sweetness of the story? The great one-liners and the way each character offered surprises to the twisting storyline? Or is it that we also want to believe in a world where Good triumphs, true love wins the day, and that the simple & meek are counted as wise?

Could be any of that. 

As the end of a four-year election cycle comes to a close, the news outlets spit forth wearying tripe between short blips of real news, and hope is too easily lost, I need a break.

So this afternoon, Baxter, the dog, and I will curl up in the Sunday cool for a few hours of restorative storytelling and one-liners. 

And now with the big rain…it looks like I will not be hiking Elachee trails.

So maybe there will be time for a little Inception, too.

Quotes for the Princess Bride Aficionado or Unitiated:

Westley: I told you I would always come for you. Why didn't you wait for me? 

Buttercup: Well… you were dead. 

Westley: Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. 

Buttercup: I will never doubt again. 

Westley: There will never be a need.

Westley: We are men of action, lies do not become us.

Vizzini: HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE. 

Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

The Grandson: Grandpa, maybe you could come over and read it again to me tomorrow. 

Grandpa: As you wish.

Officiant: Mawwiage. Mawwiage is what bwings us togethew today. Mawwiage, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam within a dweam. And wove, twue wove, wiww fowwow you fowevah and evah… So tweasuwe youw wove (see it here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbqv3MwwVd8).