Just as her appraisal had changed, so did his. If a person danced for long enough, ballet tended to change the way that they carried their. The shape of the body changed. Leave it alone for long enough, the traces could fade, but there were certain things that remained the same. Hints at something left behind.
"Wasn't your cup of tea?" Despite his own obsession with the form, he knew it wasn't the sort of thing that lent it self to being done by everybody. It wasn't a matter of weakness of will (well, sometimes it was), it was a matter of loving something enough to give up pretty much everything else in order to pursue it.
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Date: 2011-03-03 03:56 am (UTC)"Wasn't your cup of tea?" Despite his own obsession with the form, he knew it wasn't the sort of thing that lent it self to being done by everybody. It wasn't a matter of weakness of will (well, sometimes it was), it was a matter of loving something enough to give up pretty much everything else in order to pursue it.