>>> Carrol Cox
shag wrote:
> i would add about the home v house thing, which is something i
noticed in
> the way people would talk about it: home is reserved for something
you
> live in, where you want to enjoy yourself doing the things *you* like
to
> do without worrying about neighbors who don't like your bird feeder.
>
> a house, though, is the term used by folks who are talking about it
as an
> investment.
You are in Eddie Guest territory: "It takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home." Dorothy Parker wrote, "I'd rather flunk my Wasserman test / Thkan read a poem by Eddie Guest." But they named a Detroit junior high school after him.
Carrol
^^^^ [ Bud Guest, Edgar's son, was on WJR radio in Detroit in the morning in the fifties and sixties; if his show went off, I was late for school]
Burt Bacharach's
A House Is Not A Home lyrics
A chair is still a chair Even when there's no one sitting there ( A chair is a Platonic form -CB) But a chair is not a house And a house is not a home When there's no one there to hold you tight, And no one there you can kiss good night.
A room is still a room Even when there's nothing there but gloom; But a room is not a house, And a house is not a home When the two of us are far apart And one of us has a broken heart.
Now and then I call your name And suddenly your face appears But it's just a crazy game When it ends it ends in tears.
Darling, have a heart, Don't let one mistake keep us apart. I'm not meant to live alone. turn this house into a home. When I climb the stair and turn the key, Oh, please be there still in love with me
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