Remember Your Lincoln

What a brilliant pairing of words: "Love Changes". To have something so small cross and cover an infinitely vast canyon of meaning is like reading alongside the Green Power Ranger Of Literature. Sure, the other power rangers are tough, but we all know the Green was the best. You don't even have to be a fan of him to admit that.

Love Changes. Now who among you remembers their Lincoln? The belief that such a tightly built series of words could differ their meaning, dependent solely on what time of life the reader was in. What? You... you don't remember your Lincoln? That man only took a bullet for you, and pretended slaves weren't okay. The least you could do is acquaint yourself with his... nevermind. They're making a movie out of it sometime soon. I think with Liam Neeson. For those who can't wait, I'll refresh:

"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!"

It's one of those things you can't appreciate unless you're manic depressive. Or smart. And I mean book smart, not like 'can cook a kilo of meth into two'-type street smart. Lord knows I'm neither. I mean - of the smarts - I'm clearly manic depressive bi-polar omnisexual klepto.

But how cool is that? Love Changes gives the hopeless romantic proof something inside can altered by the simple presence of love. For the bitter, it could mean nothing ever stays the same. The old see the qualifiers changed, and the young still see cooties everywhere. Dan hates cooties and he's 21.

But to have something that will always posses meaning, that has got to be power. Feel good about that.

Reminders for class: I'd pay that much to clear my head.