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Does gamble gamble?
Does gamble gambol?
Does gamble gambol while he’s gambling?
Does gamble gamble while he’s gamboling?
These are the questions I feel go unasked for fear of what the answers might be.
I dare to ask the unaskable.
What are we saying?
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I am watching a tribute concert to Leonard Cohen
and I have placed Ian’s perceptive performance up there side by side with the great poet cum punk hero of yesteryear.
We all gamble I believe
it’s just a question of
degree. Gambolling is a
rarer feet. I have managed
to perfect the art in leaps
and bounds but they are
distinct; gambling requires concentration whilst
gambolling is an expression
of the purest joy. They are
rarely mixed. Sheep don’t
ask for much – just a meadow,
some grass, and to be left
in peace as a cream piece
on a sea of green in a state
of comparative grace.
Comparing Leonard’s philosophy
influenced by a Zen monk
with the simplistic punk Davies is difficult, but
not impossible. Cohen spent
years trying to find out
who he was and how he could
relate to life in a meaningful
way. Davies didn’t need to
search or travel to Hydra
he’d found Nirvana
in his handicap book and
one coffee and one biscuit completed the holy Trinity. He didn’t need to search he’d found it ! Cohen is just a little behind him.
HALLELUJA
“Did you catch too much sun today at Chilfrome” – it’s possible, Homer, but I’m capable of clinically-insane postings in all weather conditions, tbf.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"“simplistic punk Davies” – all joking aside, this is possibly one of the best (and most perceptive) descriptions of me I have ever read.
It is often said of a man: “there is more to him than meets the eye.”
With me, there’s less – a LOT less.
A Law university graduate, ex national newspaper journalist yada yada yada, I am often assumed to be many intellectual/cultural things I’m manifestly not.
“Davies didn’t need to search or travel to Hydra he’d found Nirvana in his handicap book and one coffee and one biscuit completed the holy Trinity.”
Spot on – I’m a very simple fellow, consequently with a myriad of simplistic views on life.
As for Leonard Cohen, a particularly mad ex girlfriend in London introduced me to his work in my 20s.
Track called “Suzanne?”
Lyrics about said girl taking him down to the river?
After listening to it a few times, I must confess I found myself hoping Leonard, Suzanne (and frequently the insane ex) would jump in the aforementioned river – it sounded like music to slash your wrists to, to me!
In fact, it took TWO biscuits to cheer me up again!
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"If betting is a gamble…
then Life is a gambleBeing in business is a gamble
might lose your money
Going outside is a gamble
might get run over
or struck by lightning
might die of skin cancer
Staying inside is a gamble
might lose your mind
Being in love is a gamble
might be broken hearted
your lover might be a killer.Value Is EverythingWhen I first read that Runyon line my first thought was that the 6/5 was a bit short.
I reckon it’s right out to 9/4 minimum nowadays.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/racing-how-the-bookies-take-your-money-1103397.html?amp
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"More important is Gamble alive?
The best things in life are free.
But you can give them to the birds and bees.Gamble, is all around us
Gamble, is in the air……….and, if there is a God, I thank him for that.
As Cagney famously said…
‘The postman always rings twice’
I might add..Once to be born
and once to be shorn
then lain in the lawnIs gamble alive ?
Life for him is just the same
as twenty years ago from a thinking perspective. He did die just over a decade ago, his head famously exploding in a small one bed flat on the east side of town where the east end boys hung out, with parts of his brain adding an extra grey tinge to an already grey ceiling. After death he metamophasised into the mind of a younger gumshoe Flatcap troubling his cases with…
“YOU HAVEN’T THOUGHT THAT OUT JIMMY !”Is gamble a what?
Oh, a live!
Obviously.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"
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