Monday, March 17, 2014

Keeping your head

Dress shop

Seeing the mannequin inside looking out on the headless mannequins in this downtown Downey window, I thought of the saying, "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, maybe you just don't understand the situation."

But I never knew that this was a parody of the poem "If," by Rudyard Kipling, that starts out with these lines:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you...


and ends with these:
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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