"You Can't Run a War on Gusts of Emotion."

[ish mailian]

Could be referencing burning flesh, I guess, but since sizzling night
is what the tramp says, not sizzling meat or flesh, metaphorically he
seems to be describing a sound, a sound that is Yours drear reader and
Pirate's and whomever the pederastic fantasy actually belongs to,
and given the naughty sexual context, and mention of the Genital Brain
above it, I read it as a very very hot night with sizzling orgasmic
sound. Unless of course the film is silent and it's all theatre.

There are any number of characters who might dream of little girls
bent over a fountain.

Aqualung isn't one of them.
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