Soon came a day when the bottle was broken

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I have just walked home from Brattle Street. This is the second car accident I've been in in less than a week. The first was a friend's car and an off-duty cop's, this latest was the bus to Arlington Heights and an overeager SUV, and in neither case was I driving—fortunately, neither was anyone injured, although my neck may sue me for damages if I keep this up. muchabstracted recently informed me that the prophet Elijah is one of the patron saints of motorists. Frankly, I feel like their Jonah.

Last night I dreamed for the first time in almost a month that I can remember. I was Death, in a candlelit synagogue, with a dark robe and a sword. I don't remember who I had come for. I think there was a wedding taking place.

As I walked back around the Arlington Res, I passed three teenagers and a black dog on a leash. The dog had just been barking enthusiastically after a jogger, such that its owner had to keep it from dashing after her. I walked past and suddenly it whined and cowered back against the boy. I've never had that reaction from a dog before.

If I were writing a story, I would make something of this. Instead, I think I'm going to call the number the bus driver gave me. And then maybe collapse.

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Theda uses her psychic powers to make you feel better...

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Actually, it's really any excuse.

But I hope you're feeling okay, and stay away from the road for a while, if you can, huh?

I was Death, in a candlelit synagogue, with a dark robe and a sword. I don't remember who I had come for. I think there was a wedding taking place.

I wonder, could there be another reason why Death would be going someplace? And if so, what might that reason be.

And though I don't dig Sting all *that* much...

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The song you post as listening to made an unscheduled stop in my head earlier today in a memory of precognition past, and how the first single on that album ("all this Time"?) was the center of my couple month bout of psychic powers (if I got it in my head it would be the song playing the next time I turned on the radio, not the most reckless assumption back in 1992, but fairly uncanny) and then started wondering why they chose it to be the first single, when "Soul Cages" was definitely the better, scarier and cooler song. At which point it took up residence in my head.

This is apropos to absolutely nothing, but it does strike me. But then, it's been a strikey sort of day.

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Theda uses her psychic powers to make you feel better...

Hee. That is an awesome icon. Thank you.

But I hope you're feeling okay, and stay away from the road for a while, if you can, huh?

Seriously . . .

I wonder, could there be another reason why Death would be going someplace?

It struck me that although I know this was not the reason in the dream, there are various folktales in which Death is godfather or godmother to the young hero, and I don't find it inconceivable that a respectful godchild would invite their godparent—however scary—to the wedding. I just don't know if there are any folktales of this type in which the hero survives long enough to get married.

and then started wondering why they chose it to be the first single, when "Soul Cages" was definitely the better, scarier and cooler song.

greygirlbeast sent me "The Soul Cages" last summer, but it took me until yesterday to acquire a copy of the eponymous album. (It has ghosts of place and the sea and families; it would have to be unlistenable not to at least attract my attention.) Although I didn't expect to until the lyrics kicked in, I actually really like "All This Time" for the way its bouncy, poppy melody holds up images like, "I saw the sad shire horses walking home in the sodium light / I saw two priests on the ferry, October geese on a cold winter's night . . . All this time, the river flowed endlessly to the sea / If I had my way, I'd take a boat from the river / And I'd bury the old man, I'd bury him at sea."

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As these words were spoken, I swear, I can hear the old man laughing "What good is a used-up world and how can it be worth having"

I seem to remember one Grimm tale "Godfather Death," I think, but I haven't read it in long enough to remember any of it (I'll take a look).