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a couple of songs. - the last song here is the best!

Above the Clouds (ELO)

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I came along to see your face,
But the only thing I got from you,
Was telling me it's fantasy,
That you would always be with me,
I can tell you that it's true
I'm waiting here,
But it's alright
It's alright with me,
You better believe me now.

I guess it's like a mountain side,
You gotta ...

A poem, by me. Obscure perhaps, and nonsense. But a poem nonetheless.
[COLOR="White"][SIZE="3"]28 miles
why drive
why me

28 miles
28 miles
we drive to see

we drive
drive
drive

mind the cold
mind the night
mind the rain

28 miles thinking
is
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My grandmother saw Haley's comet twice. The first time, she was about 13, just a kid, standing in a field, in the darkness, long ago. The second time was in 1986, and I took her outside of her house and pointed it out. I had just graduated college and my parents were away in Florida, so I visited my grandmother often during that time because she really shouldn't have been living by herself in her own home. I didn't want my mother and father to have to drive their camper home in the winter. ...

Who said the following?

"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,
and some few to be chewed and digested:
that is, some books are to be read only in parts,
others to be read, but not curiously, and some few
to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."

This is one of my best films and here is a summery of it:

This is the story of students at the respected "Welton Academy," a preparatory
school in Vermont. Such schools were (and often still are) very conservative
institutions that serve as high schools for parents who insist on sending their
children to the best universities. Welton, like many prep schools, admitted only
boys. The movie takes place in 1959.

The plot centers ...