Diary (May 10, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Sunday May 10, 2020.

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Song of the Day for Howard Kranz

Cover art for the album Bountiful by Peter Mayer.

Sixth in a series of songs for Howard and me to cover.

Dancing Song

"Dancing Song by Peter Mayer - from the album Bountiful (1997)

We may not be wearing perfect shoes
We may not know sophisticated moves
We may not begin from a graceful stance
But in the end we re going to start to dance

We may be standing in a public place
Careful clothing, proper public faces
When the social situation says we can t
Right about then, we re going to start to dance

And the ghost of something gone
Is going to try our bodies on
And break a smile a mile wide
When we dance to save our lives
When we dance to save our lives

Every limb long atrophied away
Will be brought back from the dead that day
Every ego, cool and in control, will suddenly be
Doing the Tango, doing the Do-Si-Do

After every remedy of an intellectual sort
We will dance a desperate dance, a dance of last resort
And it won t matter what kind of degrees we hold
We ll be relying on what we do not know

And the ghost of something gone
Is going to try our bodies on
And holler hey, it s about time
When we dance to save our lives

And the ghost of something gone
Is going to try our bodies on
Exclaiming hallelujah child!
When we dance to save our lives
When we dance to save our lives

• Peter Mayer official website
• Dancing Song @ YouTube

The Eating of the Snark

Never mind the hunting of the Snark - what about the killing and eating of the Snark?

• The Hunting of the Snark @ Wikipedia - a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorized as a nonsense poem. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his children's novel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). The plot follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, an animal which may turn out to be a highly dangerous Boojum. The only one of the crew to find the Snark quickly vanishes, leading the narrator to explain that it was a Boojum after all.

Fiction cross-reference

• Boojum oil - compare Beezle-Nut oil (nonfiction) from Horton Hears a Who!
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Ouroboros oil

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Karl Jones (nonfiction)