Aprosexic - Old age should burn and rave at close of day

Monday, November 12, 2007

Ka - Boom

Today's lyric:
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"The night time comes and the streets they ring
With the fears of a thousand things
But if you worry about your ports of call
You'll never get nothing done at all."

The Stranglers: "5 minutes"
From the album: "V"

All the breast

At the military Remembrance service that I attended yesterday*, the start of the two minutes' silence was announced by musket fire. This was followed a nanosecond later by the City's own guns inviting silence across the island.

When the City's guns declared the silence over, there was no equivalent cessation from the muskets, so everyone stood (in the cold and drizzle) for several minutes, until someone could bear it no longer and found the switch for the taped "Last Post" music to break the deadlock. At which several wheel-chair bound vets sat down with very obvious relief.

But it was a moving event notwithstanding, and I was pleased to have made the effort to attend.

* If I tell you, Buddy and I will have to kill you.

Labels: Remembrance