Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes, Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum: Mobilitate viget virisque adquirit eundo, Parva metu primo, mox sese attollit in auras Ingrediturque solo et caput inter nubila condit.
[En seguida el Rumor recorre las grandes ciudades de Libia, Rumor, un mal veloz como ninguno: La velocidad le da fuerzas, que aumentan según avanza, Pequeño y medroso al principio, pronto se remonta a los aires y con los pies en el suelo, esconde su cabeza entre las nubes.]
(Virgilio, Eneida, IV, 173-177, citado por Thijs van Leer de Focus, Round Goes the Gossip, Focus 3, 1972)
I am a lineman for the county And I drive the main road, Searching in the sun for another overload. I hear you singing in the wire, I can hear you thru the whine, And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line.
If your memory serves you well We were going to meet again and wait So I'm going to unpack all my things And sit before it gets too late No man alive will come to you With another tale to tell And you know that we shall meet again If your memory serves you well
This wheel's on fire Rolling down the road Best notify my next of kin This wheel shall explode
(Rick Danko - Bob Dylan, This wheel's on fire, 1967)
A year has come and gone since we heard the news about Billie Joe And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything And me, I spend a lot of time picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge
