Day 4 (The Decameron)

5.8

This story struck me as almost something that could come out of tales of the Twilight Zone, or The Outer Limits. You don't always have your happy ending in those stories but sometimes you do. It's odd how most of these stories in this book can be so dark in undertones and be so happy.

Anyways, I felt bad for Nastagio in the begining and happy for him in the end when he gets the girl. Though I wonder if she will every really love him? And is hate really so easy to turn into love at the display of such brutality as the Black Knight chasing his cruel women through the woods and ripping her hear out from her back? Perhaps that even symbolises something, like how he had to physically take her creul heart from her body and make it his own but its not what he did when he was alive so her has to continually repeat the exercise to remind him of his mistake? It's the same for the lady he's chasing, she is most likely running to 'keep' her heart from him much like she did in life. So she experiance the pain over and over again for her mistake. Perhaps she was afraid of the pain it might cause to even allow someone to have your heart?

All in all, this story was gruesome and I do think this book would make a good HBO special/mini-series. One story can be one Episode. I think that might do.