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Thank you for asking, sweet Wordwind. Yes I am. It is the fantastic plot of the worldrama that unfolds before my eyes that drops my jaw and keeps me mute. 
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favorite single lines
The moon is a madness, a madness of mine,
I made her of mustard and mulberry wine.
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Faldage,
I didn't know your line, but was intrigued by the mulberry and mustard, so went googling for it--and found the entire song, although I have no idea from where this could have come, but it is charming.
I must paste the whole song because it reminds me of all the hopelessly practicing horrible players of string instruments I've ever heard:
A Rune upon a Lunar Tune Aroon. (For El'n)
The Moon is a Madness,
A Madness of mine.
I made her of mustard
And mulberry wine. *(twang)*
I garbed her in silver
And strawberry cheese
And halved her in quarters.
(Her quarters do please.) *(twang, strum)*
I crowned her and gowned her
In Love all ashine,
So boot her and shoot her,
This Madness of mine. *(T-poing)* ouch.
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If you find a copy of Songs of the Pogo you may find it in there, complete with tune. Teach it to your little kiddies and have them regale their mommies and daddies.
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One of my favorite Shakespeare lines is Hamlet's reply to Polonius remark My lord, I will use them according to their desert:
HAMLET God’s bodikins, man, much better; use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.
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LET US GO THEN, YOU AND I...
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Aaaaaaah!....I spy with barely contained glee, an 'Elliottian'! Here's Elliot then, on a midnight moon: Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of memory And all its clear relations Its divisions and precisions - T.S. Eliot, Rhapsody on a windy night
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The moon is a harsh mistress.
--Robert A. Heinlein
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