My latest listening

[kalypso_v]

There is no connection between this icon and the text which follows, except my good mood, which embraces the embedded music and the sudden realisation of la Belle Dame Sans Merci's initials with equal delight.

I've just been listening to England winning the First Test against West Indies at Lord's, which got quite exciting in the morning, when

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[jhall1]

...my aunt told me about how her mother (my grandmother) might have married a German count called von Brockingen whom she met in the 1890s. But she decided against him and married my grandfather instead...

I've been thinking several times lately about how much all our lives depend on events over which we have no control, and that's a good example. Had she married the count, then you would never have existed, which would have been sad for us but of course even sadder for you. (As for me, my maternal grandfather nearly died in WW1, and my mother wasn't born until 1921.)

The la Belle Dame Sans Merci's initials are a coincidence which seems almost too good to be true. :)

[kalypso_v]

Well, it wouldn't be sad for me, because I wouldn't exist, so wouldn't have any views on my non-existence.

Another one that cropped up recently talking to my second cousin was that his grandmother, who married my great-uncle, would have been just as happy to marry my grandfather. But if she'd swapped brothers, neither my cousin nor I would exist.

[gair]

Earwormed! ::has joy::

[kalypso_v]

Isn't it wonderful? And I've finally heard "When My Boy Walks Down The Street" (Life just kind of dances through ya from your smile down to your feet...).

[sweetheartwhale]

oh epic lol - never gonna look at that poem in the same way again......

[kalypso_v]

And if you look at the whole of Frank Cadogan Cowper's painting of the scene, the knight's armour raises all kinds of interesting possibilities.