❝ Monologues · 5 lines · B2

She was still sleepwalking along the giddy heights of a lost career.

Portrait of a sleepwalker · Sunset Boulevard (1950)

 

She was still sleepwalking along the giddy heights of a lost career.

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Plain crazy when it came to that one subject, her celluloid self, the great Norma Desmond.

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Why it's worth practising

Repetition and metaphor build a cold little poem about her self-absorption.