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Song 13 | Aug 15 2003

Song 13 made me think of a ship—or a ferry, actually. The ferry was operated by two men, one of whom steered while the other did nothing, evidently, but lower and raise the mechanical gangplank. No one boarded. The ship went back and forth at regular intervals (between where and where, I haven’t a clue) but no one ever came on board.

I don’t really think this has anything to do with the song, nor possibly with anything.

Unrelated, when the gypsies say I love you, they say I want you. They don’t have a separate way to say I love you. Which meaning they mean, affection or desire, is expressed by context.

Also the Russians don’t say I have this, but rather To me there is this. For the Russians, things are not had but exist in relation.