Miss Havisham

You know what this sounds like to me, though? It

sounds to me a lot more like Miss Havisham from Great Expectations.

Someone... like closing all the windows and creating a kind of, you're turning your house into a mausoleum of your youth, a kind of a monument to something that was this moment that you had in your youth and you can never let go of.

That's what the Playboy Mansion sounds like to me.

He's doing that.

He's doing Havisham here.

But I like that.

But, yes, it was so weird.

She wasn't reliant on a husband for money.

But she was still saddled with this Miss Havisham oppressive stereotype.

Bridget was always thinking she was going to end up dying alone and being found three weeks later, half eaten by an Alsatian.

And every time she went to her parents, friends were like, why aren't you married? Tick tock, tick tock.

And he was never good enough for that whore.

But Ms. Havisham definitely wanted to fuck him.

But she set

the robot monkeys on him.

Amen.

Well, I wonder whether your Christian life, your Christian vision, your Christian concerns are more like Miss Havisham or Prince S. Jasmine.

Well, Miss Havisham, who's she? Well, Miss Havisham, some of you will know, is the reclusive, wealthy spinster from Charles Dickens' famous novel, Great Expectations.

And as the story goes, Miss Havisham, as a younger lady, had been engaged to be married, but she was jilted at the altar on her wedding day, and she never married.

And in some bitterness, she spends the rest of her life wearing her wedding dress in her large mansion, only accompanied by her adopted daughter, I think, Estella.

And as her life goes on, her world shrinks.

Her concerns are pretty narrow.

And sadly, of course, there are some people who live reclusive lives today.

Gloria Swanson, who had been a big star in the 1920s, plays this silent film star called Norma Desmond.

Her career is now over and she's living alone in a mansion like Miss Havisham and she's desperate to make a comeback.

There was a time in this business when they had the eyes of the whole wide world.

But that wasn't good enough for them.

While some people may actually die within the confines of the happiness-hoarded relationship, some people do get out of them.

The visual I often have of the people in these relationships is like Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens' book Great Expectations.

She was the one who sat in her wedding dress forever.

after being left at the altar.