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"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup. 
They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe. 
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind, 
possessing and caressing me. 

Nothing's going to change my world 
Nothing's going to change my world 
Nothing's going to change my world
 
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes. 
They call me on and on across the universe. 
Thoughts meander like the restless wind inside a letterbox. 
They tumble blinding as they make their way across the universe." 

– Fiona Apple, "Across the Universe"

Mr. Toad's Wild and Naked Ride

Tctraynor
2005-11-04 21:34:56

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"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup.

They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe.

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind,

possessing and caressing me.

Nothing's going to change my world

Nothing's going to change my world

Nothing's going to change my world

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes.

They call me on and on across the universe.

Thoughts meander like the restless wind inside a letterbox.

They tumble blinding as they make their way across the universe."

– Fiona Apple, "Across the Universe"

I know the Beatles did that song originally, but I think Fiona Apple's rendition is brilliant: contented reflectiveness. That's where I am.

This is my last travelogue. I have 10 more days here and could do another travelogue, but this makes #11 and I like 11. My last days here I just plan on vegging out somewhere, doing very little of anything – especially no pondering of the past or the future. Maybe a little Christmas shopping, and meeting up with fellow Bootsnall writer, Sophie Dixon-Box, in Airlie Beach for a good piss-up (check out her OZ travelogue There and Back Again, Maybe). Plus my computer is suffering under traveler's overload (TO). The modem is frazzled, the keyboard is whacked (so if there are any typos, I blame it on the keyboard) and my digital camera has gone to hell in a handbasket. Maybe time to striptease the whole lot!

I mainly wanna be Sun Buddha in all his glorious here and now and finish David Copperfield, which I started over a month ago. Alas, that doth not for an exciting travelogue make (the piss-up with Sophie might, but haven't you heard one too many stories about my hangovers already?).

I am so glad I did Mr. Toad's Ride here ...