Ah Yes, One Of My Faves.

Ah yes, one of my faves.

Still Crazy After All These Years - Still Water Prose Poem 48 - Wikipedia

Image via The Kites of Nephthys by The Curious Egyptologist: Nephthys and Isis stand vigil in kite form Tomb of Nefertari Valley of the Queens Wilkinson, R., 2007. The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. London, Thames & Hudson, Page 159

The Oxyrhynchus papyrus calls Isis the Kite Goddess. When Isis and Nephthys are shown mourning for Osiris they are often referred to as kites (or screechers) and depicted as such. The kite has a shrill piercing cry and to the Egyptians this suggested the wailing of women in mourning.  “The screecher comes, the kite comes, namely Isis and Nephthys.” The kite is a scavenger and will have wandered the countryside and towns looking for carrion which will have suggested the wanderings of Isis as she searched for the body of Osiris. A 4th century BCE papyrus refers to “stanzas of the Festival of the Two Kites”. Two species of hawk have been suggested from the depictions of Isis as a kite. One is the Black Kite (Milvus migrans) while the other is the Chanting Goshawk (Melierax musicus) based on the plumage and the shape. Chanting Goshawks are often seen in pairs, thus alluding to Isis and Nephthys. As their name suggests they have a melodic piping song which may have been similar to the sound of temple singers. - Isis - the Eternal Goddess of Egypt and Rome by Lesley Jackson

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Simon & Garfunkel - April Come She Will

In January 1994, Paul McCartney was given two tape cassettes by Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono that included home recordings of songs Lennon never completed or released commercially. On one of the tapes, the words “for Paul” had been scrawled hastily in John’s handwriting. The songs on the tape included “Grow Old With Me” and “Now and Then”.

Now and Then - John Lennon

I can totally feel this.

(The Pity of the Leaves - Edwin Arlington Robinson)

Hear me out-

EDIT: FOUND

I remember a wonderful interview where Artie said something among the lines of "if you listen to his guitar playing, you'll get what a great lover Paul Simon is - not that I would know of course, but I mean...", stuff like that.

So.

Yeah.

I'll look for it. It was from a BBC Radio 6 Music series named The Paul Simon Songbook, covering the history of well, Paul's music. I had the transcripts of these from gods know where, probably Artie's website old forum? Anyway, episode So Young, Yet So Full of Pain (gotta love it) is about their 60s pre-BOTW works, and at a certain point they focus on For Emily. Well, Artie's quote for y'all to enjoy: "The first thing I think about with that song is what a great lover Paul Simon is. I mean... I've never been in bed with him, I don't know (audibly smirking), but I assume he's a very caressing lover, because if you listen to him play the twelve-string underneath my voice, that carriage, that ride he's providing for the vocalist, is very intimate and very beautiful. He's so underneath my vocal, and swelling just where the vocal is swelling, and clearly the frienship is a really close one, you can hear so much on there... at this point we're friends since 13 years old, that's a close friend! So it shows up in the music that we're reading each other's next musical intention, even though it's a hundredth of a second away, we know based on what's happening in the present what the immediate next future is gonna go to. That's just musicians... being very together."

Linda Eastman     Simon and Garfunkel, New York City     1966

“I write from instinct, from inexplicable sparkle. I don’t know why I’m writing what I’m writing. Usually, I sit and I let my hands wander on my guitar. And I sing anything. I play anything. And I wait till I come across a pleasing accident. Then I start to develop it.” Paul Simon, 1984

“[T]he loving, caressing guitar work that Paul Simon does on a Martin acoustic guitar, just kills me and makes me sing lovely. I ride that guitar like a jockey on a horse that is having a fabulous little spring.” Art Garfunkel