The meaning of the Walnut and the Almond

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(From Kim by Rudyard Kipling)

"Dost thou not know the meaning of the walnut − priest?"

and

"Walnuts indeed! Ho! ho! It is almonds in the Plains!"

WTF?

Heave Ho, Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

I would say that this "Dost thou" person does not seem to have spent enough time with walnuts to really get to know them. maybe if he had simply talked to them a little bit more, and help to nurture them. all would be well. But, as it is, Dost Thou lives in the plains. And those plains people are strange folk who tend to keep friendships with almonds.
Walnuts and Almonds never got along in that day and age. And people that kept relation ships with walnuts did not get along with those who kept relationships with almonds, and vice versa.

((Censored)) ((Censored)), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...
We never really discussed this nut question fully, did we?

C J, Thursday, 15 March 2007 08:46 (eighteen years ago)

I would imagine there's a reason for that. They're both nuts. As was Kipling, I mean:

These are our regulations --
There's just one law for the Scout
And the first and the last, and the present and the past,
And the future and the perfect is "Look out!"
I, thou and he, look out!
We, ye and they, look out!


Barking. Completely fucking barking.

[i]Where the East wind is brewed fresh and fresh every morning,
And the balmy night-breezes blow straight from the Pole,
I heard a Destroyer sing: "What an enjoya-
ble life does one lead on the North Sea Patrol![i]

Singing warships. I ask you.

Matt, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Inability to italicise. I ask you. Sub-Rudyard.

Matt, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Kipling was to Warhol what corn pudding is to meatloaf.

Contrast and Compare.......

еdë §téè£, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Kipling goes well with Warhol?

Heave Ho, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)


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