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Which makes it difficult to escape - so one just has to face up to it.
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one just has to face up to it
It may have a pretty face, Rhub, but will it give you the time of day?
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"The town clock in the market square stands waiting for the hour. While its hands they both turn backward and on meeting will devour Both themselves and also any fool Who dares to tell the time. Then the sun and moon will shudder and the signpost cease to sign."
- Homburg, Keith Reid
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What is that, CK? It gives me the shivers.
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What is that, CK? It gives me the shivers
These folks have nothing but time on their hands, Jackie. And that's just the way they want to keep it!
Keeping time is a waste of time for people who only have time for spending it wisely.
When you spend time wisely, you have absolutely no reason to save it. Or to keep it.
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Who are These folks?
They are the original "quality" timers.
When "the signpost ceases to sign", it is more of a sign of our times, than it is of theirs.
The place where they live actually has a name.
It's called "Asychronicity".
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Ah--found it. Homburg is a song by Procol Harum. No wonder it sounded faintly familiar. So, grapho, methinks you were probably right. The person in the song spent some time apparently very unwisely.
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Re photo of "slaves picking cotton before the Civil War"
A picture is worth a thousand words, Jackie. It brings us back to where we started:
"Why would someone be out of their "cotton picking" mind?"
Anyone who had to pick cotton for a living, never had a chance to pick anything else.
Anyone who could pick and choose, would be out of their "cotton picking" mind to pick cotton.
Choosers keepers, losers reapers.
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