to the last gasp of a wounded bandeon

[citizenx]

Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool. In his eagerness to sympathize with everybody, not only did he take sides with the noble loving husband when I slandered my exemplary wife, but even decided privately that he had "long observed" (as he put it) a thing or two. I would give a lot to know what that purblind eagle could detect in the cloudless blue of our wedlock.
-Vladimir Nabokov, Despair

It is as pointless to mindlessly avoid trends as it is to mindlessly follow them. The point is not to let others have that much of an influence on (or dictate) your behavior.

These three things (the quote, the thought, and the song) are connected in my mind. I'm not sure what it's about.