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Wow! That takes me back. That book came out when I was a kid—my friend and I were blown away by it. It was such a unique concept. Looking forward to the film!

YouTube video by New Originals New Originals Band Name Explanation (This Is Spinal Tap)

It’s giving Spinal Tap energy

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The deck of HMS Victory

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
- Maya Angelou

Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night over the Rhône

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
—Yeats

Strawberry Tree on the grounds of Westminster Abbey, London.

"The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things." —Hans Christian Andersen

“Blame is just a lazy person’s way of making sense of chaos.” —Doug Coupland

“Blame is just a lazy person’s way of making sense of chaos.” —Doug Coupland

The ruins of Old Sarum near Salisbury, UK

“Why was I chosen?'

“Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain. — Herbert

Sunlight streams through the windows in St John’s Chapel, Tower of London

Shine! shine! shine!
Pour down your warmth, great sun!
While we bask, we two together.

Two together!
Winds blow south, or winds blow north,
Day come white, or night come black,
Home, or rivers and mountains from home,
Singing all time, minding no time,
While we two keep together.

David Gilmour playing a guitar solo, silhouetted in blue light from behind.

“It's all I have to bring today—
This, and my heart beside—
This, and my heart, and all the fields—
And all the meadows wide—
Be sure you count—should I forget
Some one the sum could tell—
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.”

—Emily Dickinson

Sign on a brick wall that reads, “counter terrorism response level Heightened.”

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, most of which never happened.”

—Mark Twain

Spinnaker Tower towers over Portsmouth Harbour Railway Station on a foggy evening.

“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”

—Sophocles

230-year-old London Plane tree in Bath, UK

What if it all works out?

Stephen Hawking’s interment site in Westminster Abbey. The plaque at the site reads, “Here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking 1942-2018. The plaque also features an illustration of a black hole as well as the Hawking Radiation Temperature equation.

“One can’t predict the weather more than a few days in advance.”

—Stephen Hawking

Birds perched atop a Stonehenge megalith

“Hope” is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all

That is so very well-designed! Can’t wait to get mine.

Man in front of HMS Victory’s stern.

“Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.”

—Horatio Nelson

And all these precious things you gave

Falling through my hands, these worlds, this scattered sand

I stand in a river, push against the stream

Time is a tide that disobeys and it disobeys me

It never ends