Come out and play! We’ll put on nice new clothes and all look alike, and the other fellows will put on nice new clothes and all look alike – but we won’t look too much like those other fellows. Come out and play! We’ll have toys of real wood and steel, hard and sharp in our hands. We’ll have toys that fly with us, and toys that fly from us, all very fast and make a lot of noise – the other fellows will have their toys, too. Come out and play! We’ll put on our nice new … [Read more...]
“‘We sing what happened'” / A Memorable Fancy #314
17 April, 2013 by Leave a Comment
We sing what happened; music makes it real for us. Once there were great battles and only our ballads recall them. We sing to each other of brave warriors and ships covering the sea, shouting men, glints of spears, the men’s first glimpse of the walls, those high walls that reached to the sky and could never be thrown down, never scaled, never breached by intrigue. Our warriors came home in despair, but we do not sing of things as real as this. <END> … See … [Read more...]
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