"While all the women came and went..."

[greygirlbeast]

There are many reasons that I love Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," but perhaps the thing I most love about it is that it feels like a prologue, and then ends with the beginning of a story.

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view

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[greygirlbeast]

The thing about keeping watch is that you cannot depart until your relief arrives. ("I can't get no relief.") Thieves (kindly spoken or otherwise) abound, and one must keep the view, no matter how hard the wind howls.

Very astute observations.

[martianmooncrab]

to write The Dinosaurs of Mars.

ooohhh yessss, I would get the coffee table edition of that.

[greygirlbeast]

As I told Bill yesterday, it's mostly a matter of finding the time to write it.

[papersteven]

I very much hope you're able to. I loved the excerpt you printed in Sirenia Digest last year.

[coppervale]

Dibs on illustrating it when you write that story.

[greygirlbeast]

Dibs on illustrating it when you write that story.

I'd take you up on that in a flash, only Bob Eggleton already has dibs.

[michael_b_lee]

I am tempted, someday, to write that story...

I hope you do, someday. You're one of the few people I can think of that would do it justice.

Also, I finished The Red Tree early last week, and I thought it was brilliant. I'm still turning the story over in my head, days later, and I haven't been able to say that about a book in a very long time.

[greygirlbeast]

I'm still turning the story over in my head, days later, and I haven't been able to say that about a book in a very long time.

Thank you.

[gtmoore]

another vote in support of that story, the "end" of "Watchtower." here's hoping time and life and all converge to allow it to happen. :)