The subject above was muttered by my mother while I was driving through downtown.
Other gems of conversation:
Her: Dan and I were in love in High School. He was crazy about me, but for some reason he broke up with me, perhaps to find out if I would beg for him to come back. I didn't. When I saw him years later, he seemed so frantic to see me, and was almost suffering over what might have been. We were reincarnated from Abelard and Heloise.
*Pause*
Us: Bwahahahahaha!
Me: Which one of you was castrated in a past life?
Her: I hope it was him.
And later:
Her: Oop. I don't think I can drive, I can't talk right.
Me: It's a good thing you don't have to drive with your lips.
Other gems of conversation:
Her: Dan and I were in love in High School. He was crazy about me, but for some reason he broke up with me, perhaps to find out if I would beg for him to come back. I didn't. When I saw him years later, he seemed so frantic to see me, and was almost suffering over what might have been. We were reincarnated from Abelard and Heloise.
*Pause*
Us: Bwahahahahaha!
Me: Which one of you was castrated in a past life?
Her: I hope it was him.
And later:
Her: Oop. I don't think I can drive, I can't talk right.
Me: It's a good thing you don't have to drive with your lips.
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Date: 2005-12-03 11:11 am (UTC)I Vecchii -
THEY will come no more,
The old men with beautiful manners. -
Il etait comme un tout petit garcon
With his blouse full of apples
And sticking out all the way round;
Blagueur! "Con gli occhi onesti e tardi," -
And he said:
"Oh! Abelard!" as if the topic
Were much too abstruse for his comprehension,
And he talked about "the Great Mary,"
And said: "Mr. Pound is shocked at my levity."
When it turned out he meant Mrs. Ward. -
And the other was rather like my bust by Gaudier,
Or like a real Texas colonel,
He said: "Why flay dead horses?
"There was once a man called Voltaire." -
And he said they used to cheer Verdi.
In Rome, after the opera,
And the guards couldn't stop them, -
And that was an anagram for V ittorio
E manuele R e D ' I talia,
And the guards couldn't stop them. -
Old men with beautiful manners,
Sitting in the Row of a morning;
Walking on the Chelsea Embankment. -