dreams unwind...

"March"
[chapter title in Fear And Loathing:  On The Campaign Trail '72]------------------[excerpt]:

The View from Key Biscayne . . . Enter the Savage Boohoo; Madness & Violence on the "Sunshine Special" . . . Lindsay Runs Amok, Muskie Runs Scared . . . First Flexing of the Big Wallace Muscle; First Signs of Doom for the Democrats . . . Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here . . . Except Maybe Ted Kennedy . . .

"I get the feeling that Muskie is starting to run scared -- but not for the same reasons I keep reading about.  Sure, he's worried about Humphrey in Florida; he's worried about McGovern with the liberals, and he's worried about Lindsay, but -- well, there's the catch:  The Muskie people aren't afraid of Lindsay actually winning the nomination. . . . What worries them is that Lindsay might start doing well enough to force Kennedy into this thing."
   --A Former Campaign Mgr. & Political Strategist

The ghost of Kennedys past hangs so heavy on this dreary presidential campaign that even the most cynical journalistic veterans of the Jack & Bobby campaigns are beginning to resent it out loud.  A few days ago in Jacksonville, creeping through the early morning traffic between the Hilton Hotel and the railroad depot, I was slumped in my seat feeling half-alive and staring morosely at the front page of the Jacksonville Times-Union when I caught a few flashes of a conversation from behind my right ear:

". . . getting a little tired of this goddamn ersatz Kennedy campaign . . . now they have Rosey Grier singing 'Let the Sun Shine In' for us. . . . It seems like they'd be embarrassed . . ."

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Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night
and wouldn't you love to love her?
Takes to the sky like a bird in flight
and who will be her lover?
All your life you've never seen
woman, taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you heaven?
Will you ever win?
She is like a cat in the dark
and then she is the darkness
she rules her life like a fine skylark
and when the sky is starless
All your life you've never seen
woman taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you heaven?
will you ever win?
Will you ever win?
Rhiannon
Rhiannon
Rhiannon
Rhiannon
...

Oooooooh
Taken by
Taken by the sky
Taken by
Taken by the sky
Taken by
Taken by the sky

Dreams unwind
Love's a state of mind
Dreams unwind
Love's a state of mind

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{book excerpt:  Fear And Loathing:  On The Campaign Trail '72, by Hunter S. Thompson.  Copyright, 1973.  Straight Arrow Publishing Co., Inc., San Francisco.}
{song:  "Rhiannon" - written by Stevie Nicks.  Fleetwood Mac album, Reprise label; 1975.}

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