(no subject)
Name: Anne Holly.
Fandom: Highlander/OC Watcher.
Disclaimer: I owe nothing, except Anne.
Warnings: None.
Challenge topic: Favourite Passage in a book.
”He saw nature-he saw books through me; and never did I weary of gazing for his behalf, and of putting into words the effect of field, tree, town river, cloud, sunbeam-of the landscape before us; of the weather round us-and impressing by sound on his ear what light could no longer stamp on his eye.”(Jane Eyre.)
Watching someone else’s life and recording it, you can see all the little things they are blind to. You put down in words all the details they miss, or care not to pay attention towards.
Jane and Watcher. Sometimes, I feel they are one and the same. Jane sees without fully being seen. Moreover, like Jane, I can avoid the threat of scrutiny and like she; I am both at once close and far.
It suits me; I know that I am not of a self-reliant or active nature. I could go on just observing, doing nothing. But it seems I must be stimulated into action, this job requires more than just observing. I can’t remain a colourless passive shadow, simply looking out a window, over the vast distance of someone else's life. I must record it as well. It obliges me to move forward, do something, be something other than just a spectator in life.