MR. PLEASANT (THAT'S ME)

I was a young man at the time, and intimately acquainted with some of the actors in this strange tale; the impression which its incidents made on me, therefore, were deep, and lasting. I shall now endeavour, with precision, to relate them all, combining, of course, in the narrative, whatever I have learned from various sources, tending, however imperfectly, to illuminate the darkness which involves its progress and termination.

Text:  J. Sheridan Le Fanu, The Familiar (1872)

Itals: In A Dis Ya Time (Link)

Velvet Underground: That's The Story Of My Life (Link)  

I'M SET FREE

I've been set free and I've been bound
To the memories of yesterday's clouds.
I've been set free and I've been bound
And now I'm set free.
I'm set free.
I'm set free to find a new illusion.
I've been blinded but
Now I can see.
What in the world has happened to me?

Note:  Tying to another VU song, That's The Story Of My Life.  Wishing Lou Reed a speedy, peaceful recovery. It's entirely possible, I'll need to sleep on it, that yesterday was the worst day of my life.


I'm Set Free: Velvet Underground (Link)

ALMOST GROWN

Yeah 'n' I'm doin' all right in school.

They ain't said I broke no rule.

I ain't never been in Dutch.

I don't browse around too much.

Don't bother me, leave me alone.

Anyway I'm almost grown.

Small Faces: Almost Grown (Link)

First:  Isamu Noguchi, Kouros, 1945-6, Marble, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Second: Statue of a Kouros (The Agrigento Youth), Greek, about 480 B.C., Museo Archeologico Regionale, Agrigento, Sicily.