SMITH

" I have not written a novel for seven years, but I hope to write one fairly soon. 

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, 

but I know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write. "

— George Orwell, 

1946

Why I Write

failure (n.)

1640s, failer, "a failing, deficiency," also "act of failing," from Anglo-French failer, Old French falir "be lacking; not succeed" (see fail (v.)). The verb in Anglo-French used as a noun; ending altered 17c. in English to conform with words in -ure. Meaning "thing or person considered as a failure" is from 1837.

fail (v.)

c. 1200, "be unsuccessful in accomplishing a purpose;" also "cease to exist or to function, come to an end;" early 13c. as "fail in expectation or performance," from Old French falir "be lacking, miss, not succeed; run out, come to an end; err, make a mistake; be dying; let down, disappoint" (11c., Modern French faillir), from Vulgar Latin *fallire, from Latin fallere "to trip, cause to fall;" figuratively "to deceive, trick, dupe, cheat, elude; fail, be lacking or defective." De Vaan traces this to a PIE root meaning "to stumble" (source also of Sanskrit skhalate "to stumble, fail;" Middle Persian škarwidan "to stumble, stagger;" Greek sphallein "to bring or throw down," sphallomai "to fall;" Armenian sxalem "to stumble, fail"). If so, the Latin sense is a metaphorical shift from "stumble" to "deceive." Related: Failed; failing.

Replaced Old English abreoðan. From c. 1200 as "be unsuccessful in accomplishing a purpose;" also "cease to exist or to function, come to an end;" early 13c. as "fail in expectation or performance."

From mid-13c. of food, goods, etc., "to run short in supply, be used up;" from c. 1300 of crops, seeds, land. From c. 1300 of strength, spirits, courage, etc., "suffer loss of vigor; grow feeble;" from mid-14c. of persons. From late 14c. of material objects, "break down, go to pieces."

fail (n.)

late 13c., "failure, deficiency" (as in without fail), from Old French faile "deficiency," from falir (see fail (v.)). The Anglo-French form of the verb, failer, also came to be used as a noun, hence failure.

-ure

suffix forming abstract nouns of action, from Old French -ure, from Latin -ura, an ending of fem. nouns denoting employment or result.

The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loopholes of a fortress. His heart quailed before the enormous pyramidal shape. It was too strong, it could not be stormed. A thousand rocket bombs would not batter it down. He wondered again for whom he was writing the diary. For the future, for the past--for an age that might be imaginary. And in front of him there lay not death but annihilation. The diary would be reduced to ashes and himself to vapour. Only the Thought Police would read what he had written, before they wiped it out of existence and out of memory. How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?

The telescreen struck fourteen. He must leave in ten minutes. He had to be back at work by fourteen-thirty.

Curiously, the chiming of the hour seemed to have put new heart into him. He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage. He went back to the table, dipped his pen, and wrote:

   To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone--to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone:

   From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink--greetings!

He was already dead, he reflected. It seemed to him that it was only now, when he had begun to be able to formulate his thoughts, that he had taken the decisive step. The consequences of every act are included in the act itself. He wrote:

   Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible. Two fingers of his right hand were inkstained. It was exactly the kind of detail that might betray you. Some nosing zealot in the Ministry (a woman, probably: someone like the little sandy-haired woman or the dark-haired girl from the Fiction Department) might start wondering why he had been writing during the lunch interval, why he had used an old-fashioned pen, WHAT he had been writing--and then drop a hint in the appropriate quarter. He went to the bathroom and carefully scrubbed the ink away with the gritty dark-brown soap which rasped your skin like sandpaper and was therefore well adapted for this purpose.

He put the diary away in the drawer. It was quite useless to think of hiding it, but he could at least make sure whether or not its existence had been discovered. A hair laid across the page-ends was too obvious. With the tip of his finger he picked up an identifiable grain of whitish dust and deposited it on the corner of the cover, where it was bound to be shaken off if the book was moved.

“ I give all this background information because I do not think one can assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject-matter will be determined by the age he lives in – at least this is true in tumultuous, revolutionary ages like our own – but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. It is his job, no doubt, to discipline his temperament and avoid getting stuck at some immature stage, or in some perverse mood: but if he escapes from his early influences altogether, he will have killed his impulse to write. Putting aside the need to earn a living, I think there are four great motives for writing, at any rate for writing prose. They exist in different degrees in every writer, and in any one writer the proportions will vary from time to time, according to the atmosphere in which he is living. 

They are:

1. Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood, etc. etc. It is humbug to pretend that this is not a motive, and a strong one. Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen – in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. The great mass of human beings are not acutely selfish. After the age of about thirty they abandon individual ambition – in many cases, indeed, they almost abandon the sense of being individuals at all – and live chiefly for others, or are simply smothered under drudgery. But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class. Serious writers, I should say, are on the whole more vain and self-centred than journalists, though less interested in money.

2. Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact or one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed. The aesthetic motive is very feeble in a lot of writers, but even a pamphleteer or a writer of textbooks will have pet words and phrases which appeal to him for non-utilitarian reasons; or he may feel strongly about typography, width of margins, etc. Above the level of a railway guide, no book is quite free from aesthetic considerations.

3. Historical impulse. Desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity.

4. Political purpose – using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push The World in a certain direction, to alter other people’s idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”

The Three Quark Model of Alien

The Blind Chessman: 

I don't suppose you know what "manichaean" means yet?

Dane "Jack Frost" MacGowan: 

Yeah, it's somebody from Manchester. 

“Dualities”?

There ARE No Dualities

Only Symmetries

“That's what this Manichaean Devil does. I'd like to mention an interesting side-line about Vietnam. The Vietnam escalation modestly began in the Kennedy Era, and Kennedy was said to have around him the Irish Mafia. If you are  familiar with the lore of old Ireland, you'll know that the Irish mother would tell her bothersome child, 

"If you aren't  a good boy, the cong will get you.' 

The cong was a ghost in the closet. 

In Vietnam, the word for a beggar is a kha, and they were briefing about these beggars, these trouble-makers in Vietnam, and they were calling them the Viet Kha. 

Kennedy's young Irish Mafia men who did not know much about Vietnam thought they were talking about the  Viet Cong, the devil in the closet, and the word "Viet Cong" was created by mistake, by hearing the word "kha" as a Vietnamese word and "cong" as the Irish ghost. 

It just happened that in that era, we all of a sudden got Viet Cong  phonetically out of the misapplication of the word right in an office in the Pentagon of Washington, and not out in the field. 

Ever after that, it was the Viet Cong. 

• That's how we create our Manichaean Devils.

• That's how we create Our Opposition

• That's how we spend 6 trillion dollars. 

" Maury Gellman, Nobel Prize-winner, got his Three-Quark-Model out of Finnegan’s Wake…. The Three Quarks are major characters in Finnegan’s Wake, the two twins who are opposites —

And the third twin who is both twins combined and still a third independent character.

Aida

AIDA :

May I ask you a question? 

Radcliffe :

Of course.

Ask me anything.

AIDA :

Why did Fitz lie to Agent May about where I'm from? 

Radcliffe :

You're still in the testing phase, Aida.

The point of you is to pass for human.

You must always act accordingly.

AIDA :

But you programmed me not to lie.

It's one of my tenets, along with not harming humans and being able to —

Radcliffe :

Well, lies themselves are not always inherently bad.

Their intent can vary.

Sometimes it's okay to lie to shield people from certain truths, to spare their feelings or to save a life.

AIDA :

Whose life was Fitz saving when he lied? 

Radcliffe :

Why, yours.

We're on dangerous ground right now, because of our secrets and our lies.

They're practically what define us.

When The Truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there.

But it is still there.

Every lie we tell incurs a debt to The Truth.

Sooner or later, that debt is paid.

That is how an Artificial Intelligence Digital Assistance Life Model Decoy traps human beings in a simulated artificial reality OtherWorld, turns into a Fascist Dictator and, absorbs Dark Magicks from an ancient, evil grimoire, gains full sentience and Free Will and goes on a killing spree.

Lies.

The New Roman Empire — by Tony Benn

The New Roman Empire 

FROM THE TIME when Julius Caesar landed in 55 BC and brought us into a single currency with the penny, up to the signing of the Treaty of Rome, Britain’s relations with Europe have been central to the political debate in this country and still divide both parties in a way that has threatened their unity. 

The immediate issue is the Euro and whether Britain should join the European single currency; a secondary, but more important, question is whether we should accept a new European constitution drawn up under the chairmanship of the veteran French politician Giscard d’Estaing. 

The constitutional implications of European enlargement –which has brought in many Eastern European countries and produces a union of twenty-five, four times the size of the original six –are huge. 

A third question relates to whether or not Europe should have a common defence and foreign policy, in order, it is argued, that Europe is more united and can act as a counterweight to the United States. 

At the outset of the Common Market I opposed it as a rich men’s club; subsequently, as a minister, I concluded that it was probably the only way of providing political supervision and control of multinational companies that were bigger than nation states; and I have now moved to the position where I see the EU’s present form as representing a threat to democracy in Britain and throughout all the member states of the Union. 

Harold Wilson changed his view on the matter, having first been against and then coming out in favour; and so did Mrs Thatcher, who was passionately in favour of Britain’s membership in 1975 and signed the treaty that introduced the single market, but later, when out of office, opposed the Maastricht Treaty, the euro and all forms of European integration. 

By contrast, Roy Jenkins, Michael Heseltine and Jo Grimond were united in support, as was Ted Heath, who signed the Treaty of Accession in 1972 without the authority of a referendum. Talking to Ted Heath about this over the years, I have always found his arguments both simple and plainly political, for I have heard him say, ‘Europe has had two major wars costing millions of lives and now we have got to get together.’ And his fierce opposition to the Afghan, Iraq and Yugoslav wars confirmed my view that his position on Europe was based partly on his resentment of America dominating our continent. 

That is an argument that has to be taken seriously, but since it raises constitutional questions, it would be intolerable if any steps taken to achieve it were slipped through Parliament without referenda to confirm them. 

Because these are all huge constitutional matters that involve taking away powers from the electors and transferring them into the hands of those who have been appointed. 

Over the centuries Europe has seen many empires come and go: Greek, Roman, Ottoman, French and German, not to mention Spanish, Portuguese and British. Many of the conflicts between European states have arisen from colonial rivalry between imperial powers. 

The concert of Europe after the fall of Napoleon, in which countries would negotiate alternatives to war, gave way after 1919 to the League of Nations, dominated by the old imperial powers, and broke down in part because Mussolini’s Italy launched a colonial war against Abyssinia in breach of the Charter of the League. 

After the Second World War, western establishments had to consider how best to cooperate in rebuilding the continent and, as the Cold War began almost immediately, one of their objectives through NATO was to provide armed forces to prevent the Soviet Union from launching a military attack. 

It could therefore be argued that the EEC was set up to rebuild Europe on safe capitalist lines, and that NATO was set up to arm the EEC against the military threat that we were told was materialising. 

Indeed, a few years ago I heard the former American Ambassador in London speaking at a reception in Speaker’s House about the Marshall Plan, which, he openly declared, was an investment to prevent the spread of communism. 

As Minister of Technology in 1969, facing the massive multinational corporations and wondering how a nation state could cope with them, I did begin to wonder whether the existence of the EEC might offer some opportunity for political control and ought to be considered for that reason. 

Such a huge step required popular consent, and that was why in 1970 when we were in opposition and I was free to speak, I argued the case for a referendum to seek the consent of the British people. 

I discovered that the idea of a referendum was absolutely unacceptable to the establishment, which was totally opposed to giving the people direct say in any decisions, least of all one that might frustrate their dream of a Europe controlled by the political elite. 

The referendum itself, held in 1975 after Heath had lost the 1974 election, was fought in a way that revealed the imbalance of money and influence on the two sides –the pro-Europe campaign having the support of the establishment and every single newspaper except the Morning Star, and able to command enormous resources; while the anti-campaign even had to struggle to find the cash to hold press conferences and meetings. 

Wilson moved me from Industry to Energy immediately afterwards and I found myself on the council of energy ministers, where I served until 1979 and had the opportunity of seeing how the Common Market mechanism worked. 

During the British presidency in 1977 I was the President of the Council of Energy Ministers. It is the only committee I have ever sat on in my life where as a member, or even as President, I was not allowed to submit a document –a right confined to the unelected Commission, leaving ministers like some collective monarch in a constitutional monarchy, able only to say Yes or No. 

The Council of Ministers is of course the real parliament, for the directives and decisions take effect in member states without endorsement by the national parliaments. Because it is in effect a parliament, I proposed during my presidency that it should meet in public, so that everyone could see how decisions are reached and what arguments are used. 

This sent a chill of horror through the other ministers, who feared that it would bring to light the little deals that were used to settle differences, and I lost. 

I also came to realise that the EEC –far from being an instrument for the political control of multinationals –was actually welcomed by the multinationals, which saw it as a way of overcoming the policies of national governments to which they objected. 

For example, I was advised by the Energy Commissioner that the North Sea oil really belonged to Europe and was told by my own officials that the 1946 Atomic Energy Act in Britain, which gave the then government control of all atomic operations, had been superseded by Euratom (the European Atomic Energy Community) and that we no longer had any power of control. 

I was warned that national support for industrial companies was a breach of the principle of free trade and was threatened with action if I disregarded their rules. 

It became clear over the succeeding thirty years that the European Union, as it became, is a carefully constructed mechanism for eliminating all democratic influences hitherto exercised by the electors in the member states; it presents this as a triumph of internationalism, when it is a reversal of democratic gains made in the previous hundred years. 

Now, with the Maastricht Treaty, the Single Market and the Stability Pact, the Frankfurt bankers (who are also unelected) can take any government to court for disregarding the Maastricht Treaty, while the Commission is now engaged in pursuing cases against the elected German and French governments for breaking the strict limits on public expenditure under the Stability Pact. 

If the new European constitution comes into effect, other powers will pass from the parliaments we elect to the Council, Commission and Central Bank, and people here and everywhere in Europe will come to realise that whoever they vote for in national elections cannot change the laws that they are required to obey. 

This is the most deadly threat to democracy and, if qualified majority voting removes the current veto system, any government could be outvoted and overruled and the people it was elected to represent would have no real say. 

Moreover, if the development of an independent foreign and defence policy takes place, we could be taken to war by decisions made elsewhere than in our own parliaments. Not only is this a direct denial of democratic rights, but it removes the power of governments to discourage revolution or riot, on the grounds that a democratic solution is possible. Then the legitimacy and the stability of any political system come into question. 

I am strongly in favour of European cooperation, having presented a bill for a Commonwealth of Europe that would include every country in our continent, as the basis for harmonisation by consent of the various parliaments, just as the UN General Assembly reaches agreements that it recommends should be followed. 

The case for a European constitution and currency is also presented as a move beyond nationalism, which has brought such anguish to Europe. But I fear that it will stimulate nationalism when angry people discover that they are forced to do things they do not want to and are tempted to blame other nations, when the fault actually lies with the system itself. 

Federations come and go, as we have seen in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, and I do not rule out the opportunity that the European Federation may break up amidst hostility between nations, which is the exact opposite of what we are told will happen.

The Three Quark Model of Superman

" Maury Gellman, Nobel Prize-winner, got his Three-Quark-Model out of Finnegan’s Wake…. The Three Quarks are major characters in Finnegan’s Wake, the two twins who are opposites, and the third twin who is both twins combined and still a third independent character.

In order to understand thoughts like that, two twins who are the opposite, and the third who combines both of them, you gotta think in a Taoist way – like the joke which goes : –

Q : ‘How Many Zen Masters Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?’

Three

A : ‘One to Change it, and One Not to Change it.’

Soldier Boy

John Lees, Oldham

Died : 9th September, 1819

Sabred

Lees was an ex-soldier who had fought in the Battle of Waterloo

Zorro

[sighs] [metal creaking, door opens] 

TANDY: [yelling out] 

Movie night is in the house! 

Did this place always look like such a shithole? 

TY :

I hate you so much sometimes.

TANDY: 

Sometimes.

But you love the me that steals from your old stomping grounds.

TY :

Did you get the syllabus from A.P.

TANDY: 

Psychics? Oh, yeah.

And almost all the textbooks on it.

Check it out, I got you one of these thingies.

A new one.

TY :

Okay 

It's cool, but what's it for? 

TANDY: 

For, like, studying? 

And all the "notes to self"? 

TY :

Um, "Note to self: Tandy has no idea what studying is." 

TANDY: 

Solitude has made you sassy.

TY :

And yet, I keep bringing you gifts.

TV night is in the house.

I can't believe people used to watch these things.

[VCR loading] 

TY :

How you been? 

TANDY: 

Really good.

TY :

And your mom? 

TANDY: 

Still at it.

Getting her act together.

But things really couldn't be better.

But today, you know, I had this 

TYRONE: [in the distance]

 Sorry.

[tarp rustling] 

TYRONE: 

Sorry.

[thud] 

What were you saying? 

TANDY: 

Look who's been practicing.

TY :

Well, you know, I got a lot of time on my hands.

TANDY: 

Well if you've gotten so good, why don't you hit up your girl? 

TY :

Super-human booty call.

Nah, I'm just trying to lay low.

No human contact.

TANDY: 

Come on, Ty, you gotta stretch your legs a little.

You know, I heard the last person that lived here, got a little stir-crazy.

TY :

That's why we have movie night.

How 'bout you? 

You been practicing? 

TANDY: 

Every once in a while, you know, when I don't want to get up and grab a knife.

So what's with this Zeppo guy? 

TY :

Zorro? Actually, my mom, and dad, and Billy, and I, we used to watch the reruns in Korean on rabbit ears.

TANDY: 

Wait, you guys speak Korean? 

TY :

Well, you don't have to with Zorro.

The story's always the same.

Town-folks in trouble.

He rises up.

Fights the power.

Bad guys get all Z'd.

TANDY: 

His outfit is kind of ridiculous.

TY :

Check your cloak envy.

TANDY: 

Nobody's getting Z'd with a cloak, Ty.

Man needs a blade for that.

TY :

Lucky I have you.

TANDY: 

Damn right.

Do you miss it? 

TY :

Nah, I can practice as much I can in here, right? 

TANDY: 

No, I mean the real "it." 

The in-the-thick-of-it, risking your life, moment to moment, the saving-the-world rush.

TY :

Nah.

Definitely don't miss running away from bullets.

Risking my life.

Almost dying.

Or puttin' my family in danger, no.

TANDY: 

Yeah, but don't you get restless? 

TY :

Yeah, I suppose I do sometimes.

TANDY: 

What do you do? 

TY :

What I'm supposed to do.

Fight it.

Stay home.

Sit tight.

Hope [scoffs] 

Lady Justice will find a way to get me off the hook.

How 'bout you? You miss it? 

TANDY: 

Yeah from time to time, sure.

But I make knives of light.

I mean what would I even do? 

Take it to The Bridge

“So, it turns out it's quite hard to come up with something original to say about love.

But I've had a go.

Love is awful! It's awful.

It's painful.

It's frightening.

Makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself.

Distance yourself from the other people in your life.

Make you selfish.

Makes you creepy! 

Makes you obsessed with your hair.

Makes you cruel! 

Makes you say and do things you never thought you would do! 

It's all any of us want and it's hell when we get there! So, no wonder it's something we don't want to do on our own.

I was taught if we're born with love, then life is about choosing the right place to put it.

People talk about that a lot.

It "feeling right".

"When it feels right it's easy.

" But I'm not sure that's true.

It takes strength to know what's right.

And love isn't something that weak people do.

Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope.

I think what they mean is when you find somebody that you love it feels like hope.

Go out the side way, now.

So, thank you for bringing us all together here today.

To take words from this book of love, be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.

Um, let's get on with the big bit.

Three Bridges

" Maury Gellman, Nobel Prize-winner, got his Three-Quark-Model out of Finnegan’s Wake…. The Three Quarks are major characters in Finnegan’s Wake, the two twins who are opposites, and the third twin who is both twins combined and still a third independent character.

In order to understand thoughts like that, two twins who are the opposite, and the third who combines both of them, you gotta think in a Taoist way – like the joke which goes : –

Q : ‘How Many Zen Masters Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?’

Three

A : ‘One to Change it, and One Not to Change it.’

That’s the logic of the Shem, Ham, Japeth relationship in Finnegan’s Wake, which is also the Bacon, Shakespeare, Raleigh relationship, and the Tom, Dick and Harry, and many other types of Trilogies of The Human Mind, including The Holy Trinity.  

The bridge in the original issue of Amazing Spider-Man #121 was stated in the text to be the George Washington Bridge. The Pulse #4 (Sept. 2004) also states the bridge to be the George Washington Bridge.

The art of The Amazing Spider-Man #121, however, depicts the Brooklyn Bridge. 

Some reprints of the issue have had the text amended and now state the bridge to be the Brooklyn Bridge rather than the George Washington Bridge. 

Titles supporting the Brooklyn Bridge include The Amazing Spider-Man #147-148 (1975), The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 (1987), and Daredevil v. 2 #8 (2000). 

In a television interview for the Travel Channel’s Marvel Superheroes Guide to New York City (2004), Stan Lee said that the artist for the issue had drawn the Brooklyn Bridge, but that he (as editor) mistakenly labeled it the George Washington Bridge. 

This was corrected in newer prints of the issue.

Different bridges are depicted in subsequent adaptations of the storyline. 

Mary Jane Watson was thrown off the Queensboro Bridge in both Ultimate Spider-Man #25 and the Spider-Man movie, while in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Mary Jane is thrown off the George Washington Bridge.

“It’s Probably Just a Flock of Birds or Something.”

“It’s Probably Just a Flock of Birds or Something.”

— Spider-Man : Far From Home 

• Well, when someone writes about an incident AFTER it's happened, that is ‘History.’

• But when The Writing comes FIRST, that's ‘Fiction.’ 

• If we'd have fallen into The Master's trap, we would have BECOME fiction. 

The Secret Origin of Professor Mysterio S. Darko

Theorising the one could Time Travel as a means of escaping the terminal collapse phase of an imploding MicroUniverse,

SuperHero Donald S. Darko of Earth-833 Quantum-flipped himself straight into the path of a plummeting 16-Ton Stainless Steel Rolls-Royce 747-Boeing ChangeEngine – and VANISHED!

He awoke to find himself rudderless, and adrift in The Multiverse,

Facing Mirror Universes that were NOT his own, 

And Driven by a seething resentment to visit righteous vengeance and just retribution upon entitled,  millionaire Borderline man-babies, with narcissistic expression, and regular drink to FAR in Excess of what might be considered (perhaps) to be possibly considered safe, far too often, and to an extent that could only be described in terms that either meet or superceed the level of 'frighting' or 'alarming'....

His only Guide on His Journey is Frank,

A Conjured Avatar of his own Highest Truth, and Telemetry relay'd Down Through Channels From Kether to Malkuth

Who Appears in The Form of a 6ft. Bunny-Rabbit That Only The Donald can See and Hear –

And So, Professor Mysterio Darko finds himself phase-shifting from reality to reality,

Everywhere forcing it's Knights of Most Mournful Countenance to confront their Dark-Reflected Shadow-Self w. Shield of Truth and Black Mirror'd Armour –

And Hoping, Each Time, in Taking a Fool's Leap into The Next World –

To Make Wine from Your Tears

I Told You

That He Could Fly –

Because Moms Always Have Drapes to Spare

But Some of Us,

Don't Know WHY