THE ROSE

We’re already living after the end of the world. No need to fret anymore.
Norman O. Brown
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"...Children shelled ? That's all
Very well, but would you
Please keep the noise
Down low ?
Because you're waking
The lazy sunbathers ...
Oh, the lazy sunbathers
MORRISSEY
from The Lazy Sunbathers
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‘I’m from Japan. My father is a Ninja. My mother is a Geisha.’
Yumiko Kayukawa at La luz De Jesus Gallery (July 7 – July 30, 2006)
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So we talked about the horses. It felt nice being close to you that way. We talked all through the afternoon. I get teary eyed when I remember the site. It was as sweet as it had ever been. I thought about mentioning the Trojan horse there and then. But I was so overwhelmed I decided to leave it be. You know, these things I can’t put labels on, they’re all I want to see. And you..you were really something…saying something on the wind. I’m so slow…my pace. I’m so slow I’m always praying I don’t cause any harm. I’d hate to think I have. But it has happened before. And that Trojan horse I never told you about. It never intended to hurt a hair on a glowing head. I don’t really remember who was where or what it was I said. Sometimes, at times like these, these eternal moments, there is so much beauty, I think I could just pop.
(DPS)

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Belle And Sebastian - Me And The Major

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Me and the Major could become close friends cause we

Get on the same train and he wants to talk to me

Me and the Major could become close friends cause we

Get on the same train and he wants to talk

But there is too much history, too much biography between us

Me and the Major don't see eye to eye on a

Number of things, he'll take a guy like me and then

Me and the Major don't see eye to eye on a

Number of things, he'll take a guy like me

And put him in the army

Cause the Queen's own army makes a man of you

But he doesn't understand and he doesn't try

He knows there's something missing and he knows it's you and I

We're the younger generation, we grew up fast

All the others did drugsThey're taking it out on us

They're taking it out on us

Me and the Major are from different worlds,
but if I get stuck in the lift it's always with a toff

Me and the Major are from different worlds,

but ifI get stuck in the lift it's always with a man

Of noble standing who looks down on me like I was never born

I think the Major's going quite insane, he goes

Along the pavement and comes back again, oh yeah

I think the Major's going quite insane, he goes

Along the pavement and comes back again

Like he is on parade, and he is on parade

At least he thinks so

Now he is swapping his tent for a sheltered home

He doesn't have a family, he is living alone

He remembers all the punks and the hippies too

And he remembers Roxy Music in seventy-two

He doesn't understand and he doesn't try

He knows there's something missing and he knows it's you and I

We're the younger generation, we grew up fast

All the others did drugs

They're taking it out on us

They're taking it out on us

They're taking it out on us

I want a dance, I want a drink of whisky so I

Forget the Major and go up the town

Because the snow is falling

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Image: Eric Zener - The Choice