Everyone has his or her own notion of perfect love. Well, mine was the one between Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin – the duo from Peter O’Donnell’s Modesty Blaise series.
They were not married. They did not make any romantic declarations. Nor do anything remotely romantic – no candlelight dinners, no flowers, no passionate kisses, no twisting in the sheets....nix!
No, they were just there for each other. Time and time again. Whether it was getting the other out of a spot of trouble, tending to a wound, or just terminating the lives of some ladies (and many gentlemen) who had dared harm one of them. They thought on the same lines, quite often not even needing to talk to communicate – a look sufficed. It was a relationship that very few people (if any at all) understood. They were not lovers in the strictest sense of the word, but were closer than perhaps two lovers ever could be. To her, he was “Willie, love” and to him, she was always “Princess.”
Willie Garvin perhaps summed it up best in the first book of the series (Modesty Blaise) when he was asked if he did not feel bad about seeing Modesty Blaise in the arms of another man:
“I’m a different page of the book to Hagan (Modesty’s lover at that time).But if you come right down to it, I bet he’d rather be where I am than where is.”
Aye, that’s love all right. In my book, that is.
Some people want to be Prince Charming. Others aspire to be Casanovas. Still others dream of being tall, dark and handsome (and these days, utterly unshaven) hunks.
Me? I would be content to be someone’s Willie Garvin.
3 comments:
Liked it. :)
Hey Nimish,
Quite liked the thought :) But I wonder why someone like Willie always has to be ata distance. It would just be so nice if he were really to be the lover too.
He is not at a distance at all. Actually, he is closer to her than anyone will ever be. And I guess there lies the charm of it all - the ability to be so close to someone without being a physical lover. As Willie himself says, "What I and the Princess have, you couldn't buy with all the diamonds in the world!"
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