{"id":2240,"date":"2021-07-22T23:06:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T04:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2022-07-06T22:40:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T03:40:12","slug":"lx-commentary-10-all-youve-got-to-do-is-fall-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lx-commentary-10-all-youve-got-to-do-is-fall-in-love\/","title":{"rendered":"LX Commentary #10: All You’ve Got To Do Is Fall In Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Upon deciding to run with this fairytale interlude for the rest of side B, my storytelling goal became connecting the dots from Benji & Jessica to Benji & L while moving things towards a confrontation in “The Tower”\u2014whatever that might turn out to be. So easy to do, right? \ud83d\ude42

My favorite part of this chapter was a happy accident. Originally I recycled the shopping list from “Where Do Old Lovers Go?” here, showing the grocery store scene from the internal point of view. Somewhere along the line I picked up the habit of listening to each chapter’s song on repeat as I wrote\/rewrote, and one day the drawn out way Benji Hughes sings the opening line here sounded like a rebus.

Wouldn’t it be sweet, if you could be in love with me?

Wood…Ant..IT..Bee..Sweet

Aside from the pronoun in the middle, each one had an easy image. And so did IT if I invoked the iconic Stephen King title.<\/p>\r\n

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Wouldn’t it be sweet, if you could be in love with me? Wood Ant IT Bee Sweet, \u00a0F Ewe Cod Beer Inbox ? Wheat Mirror<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

(I suppose a middle finger could replace the Fahrenheit lamb, but we’ll keep this G rated in accordance with the old “contains no explicit language” label that once appeared on an old version<\/a> of the Benji Hughes store website<\/a>.)<\/p>\r\n

Other tidbits:<\/p>\r\n

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Kinda looks like a sword…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n