11 comments for “Ozy And Millie: That hideous bell”
Hear the tolling of the bells –
Iron bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
And the people – ah, the people –
They that dwell up in the steeple,
All alone,
And who, tolling, tolling, tolling,
In that muffled monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling
On the human heart a stone –
They are neither man nor woman –
They are neither brute nor human –
They are Ghouls: –
And their king it is who tolls…
Hear the tolling of the bells –
Iron bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
And the people – ah, the people –
They that dwell up in the steeple,
All alone,
And who, tolling, tolling, tolling,
In that muffled monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling
On the human heart a stone –
They are neither man nor woman –
They are neither brute nor human –
They are Ghouls: –
And their king it is who tolls…
But why will you say that I am mad?
My favorite line from that story is: “Madmen know nothing!” It’s a great line to incorporate into a mad scientist rant!
“The bell tolls for thee,”
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Nice play on Poe’s “beating of his hideous heart”.
The bell is her “Tell-Tale”….
I think it was her eye in panel 3… yes, it was this!
Gentlemen… tear up the floorboards! I can quote ‘The Tell-tale Heart’ incessantly since I did it in English.
I still occasionally dream I am back in school.
And I am 57.
@Kytsuine, I read those lines in Vincent Price’s voice, like /Thriller/.
Millie is not a person that I want as my enemy.
The ringing of the bell commands you