I Sing The Body Antenna

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finger-antenna.JPGWade borrowed the idea from Walt:

I sing the body electric
I celebrate the me yet to come
I toast to my own reunion
When I become one with the sun

-- Wade Lassiter, soundtrack to the movie Fame

I SING the Body electric;
The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul

--- Walt Whitman

I knew the line from the song in the movie Fame, but not remembering that, I stumbled on the original by Walt Whitman. Or rather, a revision, by Walt Whitman. The 1860 original version of the poem started off "O my children! O mates!" He changed the first line to "I SING the body electric!" in 1867.

I ended up searching for the line because I thought of it when I used my finger in place of my broken cell phone antenna. I was only able to get good reception if I pressed my finger into the antenna well where it had snapped off. This created an indention in my finger, but I was able to get 5 bars instead of 2.

The body makes a good cell phone antenna in a pinch.


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Eric said:

I'm studying Walt Whitman in my English class.

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