How many miles to Babylon?
Three-score and ten.
Can I get there by candlelight?
Yes, and back again.
– Old English Nursery Rhyme
Taken at the Antique Center (of course).
I have been watching The Fast Runner, one of Shayna's favorite films. It's growing on me.
And Aleph and I are doing the psychic thing again.
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That's quite a flattering photo of Rush Limbaugh.
I am intruiged about the 'psychic thing'(?)
Thank you about your interesting words on my blog- great food for thought!
Annamaria :)
Annamaria- you have to check the link for the explanation.
You darlingheart. Say, I swear I saw that horse this past Saturday ... I think he must've escaped from the Antique Center and hightailed it to my swap meet!
I'm sure I backed that horse in the 3.30 at Punchestown.
TFE- Long odds, I assume?
Rick- Heh.
Hi Susan, I´ve just read "The Rocking Horse Winner". Why you´re right S, I can´t know, but seems we were playing in the same forest. The tale is amazingly built, it´s good to read it and think about it for a while. Stopping all wheels, in silent -if we can, better then.
Sur'n the horse can run faster than th' candle can burn...or not...
Hopp hopp hopp Pferdchen lauf Galopp... - old Geman Nursery Rhyme
I've come to think of rocking horses as a bit sinister ever since I first saw the original Deborah Carr version of Turn of the Screw.
NOw I wonder the
origin of that rhyme,
since most had rather intersting
beginnings in political satire or something.
Grrl- There was something on wikipedia about it having something to do with the crusades -
My father bought my brother and I a hobby horse just like this one. We were probably 7 & 4 as I remember it was at our (then) new home. What a wonderful memory.
Have the most beautiful sung version of that nursery rhyme on an ancient tape. It's transporting, like the horse.
Love the tones of the photograph.
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