One-Liner Wednesday: Function over form
“There is no such thing as a beautiful prison” – Proust: The Captive (La Prisonnière) – – – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 14 October 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Hang on – ‘Hold Me Close’
I feel like I’m cheating a bit with Jim’s prompts for Song Lyric Sunday this week. His key words are ‘Hold/Pause/Stop/Wait’,Clearly, the sense is, as his title indicates, ‘Whoa’.However, I’ve taken an homophonous meaning of the word ‘hold’ on which to base my contribution. This bouncy little number by the cheeky (and really quite disgracefully…
One-Liner Wednesday: Mañana
“I treated this day in a similar fashion, allowing [it]…..to pass without doing anything, and vowing that I would begin to work on the morrow” – Proust: The Captive (La Prisonnière) – – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 7 October 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Free – ‘Baby I Love You’
Jim is giving us free rein for Song Lyric Sunday this week. Which is timely. Tomorrow is my – by which, of course, I mean ‘our’ – 46th wedding anniversary and this is the first record I ever bought for my darling wife. The words were true then and they are just as true now.…
One-Liner Wednesday: Doing Silly Things
“The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity” – Proust: The Captive (La Prisonnière) – – – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 30 September 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Siblings – ‘Sister Morphine’
Jim’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is siblings. ‘ Leonard Cohen’s ‘Sisters of Mercy’ was the first song that came to my mind, but I’ve already deployed it in this thread. Fortunately, I then recalled one of the deeper cuts from the Rolling Stones’ seminal ‘Sticky Fingers’ album, released in 1971. Like most…
One-Liner Wednesday: Selective Memory
“As for people in society, there are very few things that they remember” – Proust: The Captive (La Prisonnière) – – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 23 September 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Canadian – ‘When You Dance I Can Really Love’
‘Let us now praise famous Canadians’ is the essence of Jim’s prompt for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. If you’ve dropped by hoping for some Justin Bieber then you’re definitely in the wrong place, but there’s plenty of excellent Canadian music to choose from. As I haven’t featured him for a while, I’ve gone with…
One-Liner Wednesday: Beware of zealotry
“If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it upon other people” – Proust: Cities Of The Plain (Sodome et Gomorrhe) – – – – – – – – – #1liner Weds 16 September 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Contrasts – ‘Hello, Goodbye’
Jim’s theme this week is ‘contrasts. This song – which surely needs no further introduction – is full of them. You say yes, I say no You say stop and I say go go go, oh no You say goodbye and I say hello Hello hello I don’t know why you say goodbye, I say…
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