Have you tried to hold a moonbeam in your hand?
You can’t even spiel speel, old chap, AYK, but you paint a vivid picture of a charming friendly scene — may your wishes all come true
May you always do for others / And let others do for you.
Jimmy switches the phone (or the in-car vacuum cleaner) from his left side to his right, as he switches from his sentimental side to his sociopathic persona …. We all do that, don’t we, Dr Lecter?
Or “flint”, as in “heart of”
“… just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow,” {in a voice from the planet Sensuality}
These are Pathetic Fallacies and/or Pious Hopes.
And there’s no place like home, Toto.
Standard Oil Company was founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller.
Standard Oil ==> S O ==> Esso (I never realised that).
“Everyday, / I think about dying. / About disease, starvation, / violence, terrorism, war, / the end of the world.
“It helps / keep my mind off things.”
“I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.”
“I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.”
Have you tried to hold a moonbeam in your hand?