intertext

yeah, me too. On its own it always moved me, and I have this other somewhat ideosyncratic button associated with it, too. Have you ever seen the _movie_ of "The Little Prince"? Somewhat bizarre musical version, notable for 1. Bob Fosse doing an amazing dance turn as the Snake and 2. Gene Wilder as the Fox. There's a scene of him standing - forlorn - in a corn field that chokes me up just thinking about it, and which that line of Nightingale always now reminds me of.