Secrets Of The Dunes

Time.com ^ | 3-19-2006 | Lisa Clausen

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The same way the tourists don't leave their tracks at Grauman's Chinese Theater.

[AnAmericanMother]

"Lives of great men all remind us,
As we o'er their pages turn,
That we too may leave behind us
Letters that we ought to burn."

[Hegemony Cricket]

Heh heh heh. Reminds me of something my mom used to quote:

Toiling, rejoicing,
My life I thus conduct;
Each morning sees some task begun,
Each evening sees it chucked!

[AnAmericanMother]

"Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begun,
Each evening sees its clause.
Something attempted, something done,
Has earn'd a night's repose."

. . . it's like figuring out the originals of the poems from Alice.

[AnAmericanMother]

"Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begun,
Each evening sees its clause.
Something attempted, something done,
Has earn'd a night's repose."

. . . it's like figuring out the originals of the poems from Alice.

[AnAmericanMother]

. . . er, that's "close". Typo in the original that I didn't catch.

Not to mention the stutter-step when I saw it - too late!

"How doth the little crocodile . . . "

[theFIRMbss]

>Secrets Of The Dunes
>>Let us, then, be up and doing, / With a heart for any fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing, / Learn to labour and to wait. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Drive along the sea
Far from the city's twitch and smoke
To a misty beach
That's where my life became a joke

On the dunes
On the dunes
(Became a joke on the dunes)

Where rents are high
And seabirds cry
On the dunes

As you spoke you must have known
It was a kind of homicide
I stood and watched my happiness
Drift outwards with the tide

On the dunes
On the dunes
(Homicide on the dunes)

It wasn't fair
It's brutal there
On the dunes

Pretty boats
Sweeping along the shore
In the faltering light
Pretty women
With their lovers by their side
It's like an awful dream
I have most every night

In the summer all the swells
Join in the search for sun and sand
For me it's just a joyless place
Where this loneliness began

On the dunes
On the dunes
(Loneliness on the dunes)

I'm pretty tough
But the wind is rough
On the dunes

[Hegemony Cricket]

Hey, you don't happen to have a recipe for Mock Turtle Soup, do you? :-)

[AnAmericanMother]

Beautiful soup, so rich and green!
Swimming in a hot tureen!
Who of best wishes would not stoop
For soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!

(that's from memory, so it may not be quite right.)

Here's the original:

Beautiful star in heav'n so bright,
Softly falls thy silv'ry light,
As thou movest from earth afar,
Star of the evening, beautiful star.

Beautiful star,
Beautiful star,
Star of the evening, beautiful star.

[wyattearp]

I suppose one side of the track couldn't simply have been drier?

If I am walking and get one foot on solid ground, and the other in the mud, I shift over to get both feet on solid ground. It's pretty much automatic. I can't imagine anybody intentionally walking with one foot in the mud and the other on solid ground. Unless, of course, that person was intentionally trying to confuse anybody who saw his footprints, as a joke... ;-)

[S0122017]

Then i must be weird, cause i have done it a few times just for fun. Comparing how the mud and solid ground affect both feet different is interesting to me, call it scientific playing.

[wyattearp]

I was thinking of backpacking. I've done a lot of it in the Olypmics, and am constantly searching for solid ground. Walking half-in and half-out of the mud while carrying a backpack can really throw you off-balance.

[wyattearp]

[wyattearp]

[Chani]

The worms become the spice. That is the secret.

I love Dune! :)

[B-Chan]

The Sleeper has awakened!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!one

[WestVirginiaRebel]

He was the first to be challenged to a butt-kicking contest.

[kitchen]

Hey, you don't happen to have a recipe for Mock Turtle Soup, do you? :-)

I may be missing something in this conversation, but here goes: use your favorite snapper soup recipe but substitute turkey neck meat for the snapper. Fold in diced hard boiled eggs and add a drop of sherry before serving.

[S0122017]

I was thinking of backpacking. I've done a lot of it in the Olypmics, and am constantly searching for solid ground. Walking half-in and half-out of the mud while carrying a backpack can really throw you off-balance

Ahaha! But not as much as backpacking while only having one leg. I would have been more convinced if the saw a pattern of a cane along side the one leg prints.

[Hegemony Cricket]

LOL! Sounds delicious - we were actually making reference to "Alice in Wonderland" - that Lewis Carroll was quite a wacky chap...