Cindytalk - Wheesht (Musik Schottland)
"Duncan Thaw drew a blue line along the top of a sheet of paper
And a brown line along the bottom
He drew a giant with a captured princess
Running along the brown line
And since he couldn't draw the princess lovely enough
He showed the giant holding a sack
The princess was in the sack
His father looked over his shoulder and said.
'What's that you're drawing'
So he said uneasily,
'A miller running to the mill with a bag of corn'
What's the blue line supposed to be
The sky, you mean the horizon
Thaw stared dumbly at his picture
The horizon is the line where was sky and land seemed touch
Is it the horizon, It's the sky
The sky is nae straight line Duncan
If would if we saw it sideways
Mr. Thaw got a golf ball and a table lamp and explain Earth was like a ball
And the sun like a lamp
Thaw was bored and puzzled and said
'Do people fall off the sides?'
No they kept on by gravity
"What's gravity?"
"gravity is what keeps us on the Earth
Without it would we fly up into the air"
"And then would we reach the sky?"
"No, no the sky is just a space above our heads
Withouth gravity we would fly up into it forever."
"But would we come to a thing on the other side?"
"There is no other side Duncan, not at all."
????? his drawing into blue clear along the line of the sky pressing hard
He dreamed that night of flying up through empty air till he reached a flat blue cardboard sky
He rested against it like a balloon against a ceiling until worried by the thought of what
Was on the other side
Then he broke a hole and rose through more empty air till he grew afraid of floating forever
Then he came to another cardboard sky and pressed it till worrying by the thought of the other side
And so on"
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