V-2nd - Chapter 8 Space/Time scene climax

[Michael Bailey]

well, hmmm, I used to ride around the court on my bicycle, 30 times or
so, in the spirit of Lawrence of Arabia, who as I'd learned from his
biography for young readers had a "pilgrimage" phase where he wrote
his thesis on medieval castles and made his way from site to site
camping on a bike before going on to his "crusading" phase ("the
diference between a pilgrimage and a crusade is the presence of
weapons" as the Chums learn under the desert)

Oh - Lawrence,
u-hu-huv Arabia, with his
Wi-ig, wag woggledy doo!

In-surance
I-i-in Arabia,
Don't co-o-ver wha-at he do....

but even then, that seemed like the coolest phase of his life, and I'd
circle the court repeatedly and then dash off around the block on that
bike!  It was red, and some off-brand, more like Pee Wee Herman's bike
in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure...minus the streamers of course, and
sometimes I'd put a playing card somehow on the back fork so it would
make this rattling sound on the spokes...

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
>> are you saying that tune is the one behind the lyric here?
>
> No, but the concept is.
>
>

but I guess I did wiff anyway, I was trying to get you to expound on
that lyric...or Debussy, or music history, or bergomasks...

If as Mark mentioned, it's funny that we invoke the bergomask, the
dance mode of the clumsy rustics, to liken these cutting-edge
Manhattan sophisticates in their party action to, then there may be
more resonances to the dance.

However, perhaps, Benny's action is the Bergomask and we shall meet at
ninny's tomb...with a monstrous small voice...