The most famous riderless horse used for US state funerals was Black Jack, whose oil-coloured mane swung in the cold Washington air behind the coffin of John F. The tradition stretches back close to a millennia, to the campaigns of Genghis Khan, when horses were sacrificed so they would be there to greet fallen warriors in the next world. The riderless horse follows the casket in a military funeral procession, empty boots facing backwards in the stirrups. For elliptically very much describes the way the first incarnation of Manic Street Preachers ended, with that final point hardening and emboldening over the years, black ink bleeding out into white page, gradually ceasing to represent elision, gradually becoming a full stop.Īnd what of the four words preceding the ellipsis? The ellipsis at the end of the second quotation belongs to me. “Riderless horses, Chomsky’s Camelot…” Richey Edwards, ‘Peeled Apples’
And so your life is…how do you keep that from happening?” Bruce Springsteen The thing that’s eating at you, wants to eat you. So the idea is: how do you manage that thing that’s eating at you, without letting it eat you? ‘Cause that’s what it wants to do.
What was eating at that guy? Why did he have to sing like that and move like that? Jerry Lee Lewis, what was eating at him? What was eating at Hank Williams? Johnny Lydon? Something was. “The artists people are interested in have something eating at them.
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