As you know, Bob...

[desperance]

We give - of course! - no credence to our dreams, and do not discuss them here: which is just as well, because otherwise we would have to dig out deeply interior reasons why we should be strolling the hilly streets of New York, waiting to go to the airport, passing by a department store called Gerald Tartery and improvising lyrics to the hymn sung by Sean Connery throughout The Man Who Would Be King. [Which turns out to be "The Son of God Goes Forth To War", and no: I am not going to Google the lyrics, because then I would learn them, and then the story would be complete and the world would come to an end. Which would be bad.]

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I am surmising intentions to conquer.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if it's bad if the world comes to a good end or only bad if the world comes to a bad end? And what would a good end consist of? I'm tempted to send you the words of the song, just to find out. Tempted, but, alas, not foolish.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Completely unrelated but I am too rattled to look up the right communicatey bits: when you see Friend Dan'l., tell him I am reading the book he wrote as distraction from my current situation, and thank him.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yay; I will do that. Thank you!

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

I prefer the lyrics that start The Minstrel Boy To The War Has Gone.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Ah now, that one I can sing. I guess that's why the tune lingers while the words are fugitive, because there are two sets of the latter; but when the tune comes to mind, it always brings the film along. I love that film. If mostly for Christopher Plummer.

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

Thank you for caring for our continuum.

Limerick

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

As you know, Bob, I can be relied on to bring the tone down. That line:
The Son of God Goes Forth To War
scans like the first line of a limerick, and indeed there is one that begins:
The God of War set forth to ride
and which shewhomust and I know the rest of.