Monday, November 3, 2014
"Coming Back Like a Song," Part 3
Beside verbal association, there's just seeing things, visual association, that brings a song back. Spying chestnuts in a grocery store leads to "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire." (Thank you, Nat King Cole.)
I look up one night on a pleasure trip and there's a very good moon up there, not full yet, but very bright and shining, hanging all by itself in the sky: "Full Moon and Empty Arms." (Actually, thank you Tchaikovsky, originally.)
While taking a banana out of the fridge, a singing commercial comes back: "Never put bananas in the refrigerator, no no no no." (Little thanks to Chiquita Banana who I think misled us with that one. I leave 'em in till the day before I use them, to preserve 'em, then bring 'em out to regain their warmth and flavor.)
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