Where did you come from? And where are you going?
Questions asked of journeying heroes and the like in many folk tales, especially Russian and eastern European ones.
"Where do you come from? Ivan Tsarevich, and where do you go?"
From Genesis:
'And he said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go?"'
I just like these questions. They remind me of alliterative idioms like 'part and parcel' - neither the whole parcel nor part of it is meant, but something in-between. 'The world and his wife'. 'By hook or by crook'. 'Wind and weather'. 'Might and main'. 'Time and tide'. 'Rack and ruin'. 'Top to toe'.
'Where did you come from? and where are you going?' - the question seems to be "What, or who, are you now?"
We are, at every moment, a product of both the past and the future.
Questions asked of journeying heroes and the like in many folk tales, especially Russian and eastern European ones.
"Where do you come from? Ivan Tsarevich, and where do you go?"
From Genesis:
'And he said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go?"'
I just like these questions. They remind me of alliterative idioms like 'part and parcel' - neither the whole parcel nor part of it is meant, but something in-between. 'The world and his wife'. 'By hook or by crook'. 'Wind and weather'. 'Might and main'. 'Time and tide'. 'Rack and ruin'. 'Top to toe'.
'Where did you come from? and where are you going?' - the question seems to be "What, or who, are you now?"
We are, at every moment, a product of both the past and the future.
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anyway - i did good, i caught a fish, a nice medium sized bass which then got cooked over a log fire beside the lake. . .
wasn't i saying that i wasn't the outdoorsy type like a fortnight ago? yeah, how things change - fishing one day, and then i've been back to the lake since to go swimming, which was great. me, sofie and a whole bunch of her friends. all female. yeah, it was an enjoyable afternoon. . .
anyway, mother dearest arrives late saturday night for 12 days. we're going down to stockholm to meet her. great city. i want to move there, but sof's having none of it. i guess it's comparable to being in scotland and your significant oterh saying 'hey let's move to london'
so i can sort of understand her reaction
anyway, how's things?