Remembering

[Guest]

Aazzi sat under the shade of a tree, with a book in her lap. It was a non-fiction and for all she acted she was actually quite the history nerd. She used to sneak into the English and Dutch settlers towns and steal books from the school to read. She now was quite proud of her history knowledge and once she even 'borrowed' one of them..what did they call them...laptops? To research even further, she learnt a lot from a white mans culture, she memorised everything from, actors and films to soldiers and war, significant people and revolutions to little trivial things like bands and famous books. She might as well have been a native for all she knew, perhaps she knew a little more than some of them. For all her memory it was well adapted to memorising things she was interested in and placing the book on the grass she started to walk around, marvelling at the flowers and thinking happily about the topic she had just learned, but she liked to recap everything she had learned and there was this one song that she rather enjoyed partly from the fact she liked the singer and part from the fact that she knew in-depth about everything he said, every person, every place, every fact she had learnt and memorised...I mean she had 16 years of doing hardly anything she had a lot of brain space to fill up. The lioness started to walk with more rhythm and moved her arms and hands in a very matter of factly way.

"Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it


Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball,
Starkweather homicide, Children of Thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land,
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire..."

Then she would repeat, working over the words in her head as she enjoyed her nerdiness in the hot afternoon sun. It made her feel a little bit...awesome...that she probably knew the most history out of anyone at the Athenaeum.

[Eos]

((lurks, love that song))

[Guest]

Jane was strolling through the grounds, her head full of thoughts and those thoughts running in circles when she thought she heard a voice. Someone was singing. And the song sounded familiar...

"Oh no," she groaned, closing her eyes and pinching the bridge of her nose. "Not Billy Joel..."

Then she went in search of the voice, just to see who knew such an irritating, yet at the same time good, song.

[ I love that song, and the music video. x3 But apparently Jane doesn't. ]

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