Who Is Such An One Who Knows These Things

It is but such a one as even thee!

Everyone should have a Browning and take it with them wherever they go...

All of you guys like guns. And toys.
Bang Bang. ...Guns. Yeah!

LOL

I have one - look:

'Into the street, the Piper stept,

Smiling first a little smile,

As if he knew what magic slept,

In his quiet pipe the while;

Then, like a musical adept,

To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled,

And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled,

Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled;'

Et cetera et cetera - it goes on a bit, and then -

'From street to street he played advancing,

And step for step they followed dancing,

Until they came to the river Weser

Wherein all plunged and perished!

Save one who, stout as Julius Caesar,

Swam across and lived to carry,

(As the manuscript he cherished),

To Rat-land home his commentary:'

al-Tusi

Huh?

What is this? Methinketh sore but that it do hath the strain of one Nasir al-Tusi al-Din about it.

...Without whose having carried many books under his own cloak and arm, across a river when the Mighty Khan burned down the Grand Library... ...we should none of us have Euclid or the Pythagorean Theroem up to this day.

And the salt? What is this?

The salt that is sprinkled upon the candle flame? Really?

Why?

But why?

I do not know anyone who 'sprinkles salt upon a candle flame.'

Although of course, we have discussed how certain kinds of salt burns blue and purple, in the fires...

Lucky old Robert Browning did not openly discuss anything about 'adult marshmallows,' yeah?

For that would be taking mere 'co-incidence' a few leagues too far.

LOL

And but did he though?

Did they even have marshmallows back then? Oh dear. They were invented a long time ago - we do not know by whom (I do, of course, but I cannot say...) - although the Ancient Egyptians had them as early as 2000 BC.

Although back then, 'the treat was reserved for gods and royalty.' ...Wonder who knows the actual recipe for that, though - now.

What?

What?

Calvin - what the hell are you going on about this time?!