“Last night I dreamt I was in Manderlay again.”
Can anyone tell my what the significance of this quote is? I’ve been able to find nothing about it. Manderlay isn’t in my dictionary.
The quote comes from an old Alfred Hitchcock movie, Rebecca. Below is the whole quote.
"Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden, the supernatural powers and passed like a spirit through the barrier before me. The drive wound away in front of me, twisting and turning as it had always done. But as I advanced, I was aware that a change had come upon it. Nature had come into her own again, and little by little had encroached upon the drive with long tenacious fingers, on and on while the poor thread that had once been our drive. And finally, there was Manderley. Manderley, secretive and silent. Time could not mar the perfect symmetry of those walls. Moonlight can play odd tricks upon the fancy, and suddenly it seemed to me that light came from the windows. And then a cloud came upon the moon and hovered an instant like a dark hand before a face. The illusion went with it. I looked upon a desolate shell, with no whisper of a past about its staring walls. We can never go back to Manderley again. That much is certain. But sometimes, in my dreams, I do go back to the strange days of my life which began for me in the south of France…" --the second Mrs. de Winter"
-N
Strider,
1: Nicely done
2: I’m scared!!!
3: One Ring to rule them all. One Ring to find them. One Ring to bring them all. And force them to post on SDMB. 
Heh, for a minute there I thought you were calling ChiefScott Rebecca.
Was the Hitchcock movie based on a novel? I know he worked on a lot of original screenplays. If so, who wrote it?
Rebecca was written by Daphne Du Maurier. The movie’s a good adaptation, but I still liked the book better.
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BigJoe:
I have noticed that this board is rife with LOTR fanatics. Several people have commented on my handle and everytime it is a pleasure to see that someone notices. Anyway…
-N
Dang it. I just remembered a dream I had last night, which is rare for me, and I was all ready to share it. Sigh.
Share with us anyway Smeghead: hijack the thread. Make it your own.
Well, darn. I thought this would be a thread about The Smiths 
Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me
no hope no harm just another false alarm
This quote also figures prominently in Stephen King’s recent book Bag of Bones (which I recommend). I may have misunderstood, because I was reading it on a Cancun beach and kept getting distracted by topless beach bunnies, but I was under the impression that it comes from a book by W. Somerset Maugham. I’ll go back and look to see if I’m wrong, or King is, or what.
If you enjoy reading fiction at all, you should definitely read the book!
FWIW, de Maurier also wrote a short story upon which AH based “The Birds.” Pretty darn spooky. Very different from the flick.
Nope, Chef Troy, it’s Daphne Du Maurier. I had to read this book for English in middle school, and it’s stuck with me.
Here it is on Amazon