All ye who regard the sea, know thee well, Papillon never let the spirit of freedom leave his heart. His light could never be extinguished. He would rather live a day as a free man than a long life as a prisoner. Although his friend begs him to stay in what has become - during the course of the years - their normal life, Papillon will not give up his desire for freedom. Through some gradual process of habituation, this prison island has become the rock which they cling to, yet Papillon rejects the safety of familiarity, and leaps off the edge of the cliff, into the sea, and swims ... either to death, or freedom. The narrator tells us: "Papillon made it to freedom. He lived the final years of his life a free man." Papillon, the original 1973 movie, starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papillo...) Free As The Wind sung by Englebert Humperdink at the end of the movie Papillon https://youtu.be/F2cbtt64lIs Yesterday's world is a dream Like a river that runs through my mind Made of fields and the white pebble stream That I knew as a child Butterfly wings in the sun Taught me all that I needed to see For they sang, sang to my heart "Oh look at me, oh look at me" "Free as the wind, free as the wind" "That is the way you should be" Love was the dream of my life And I gave it the best I know how So it always brings tears to my eyes When I think of it now Gone like the butterfly days And the boy that I once used to be But my heart still hears a voice Tellin' me "look, look and you'll see" "Free as the wind, free as the wind" "That is the way you should be" There's no regret that I feel For the bittersweet taste of it all If you love, there's a chance you may fly If you fall, well you fall Rather the butterfly's life To have lived for a day and been free For my heart still hears that voice Tellin' me "look and you'll see" "Free as the wind, free as the wind" "That is the way you should be" "Free as the wind, free as the wind" "That is the way you should be" Andy Williams version: https://youtu.be/HbEvPh-pJfs composed by Jerry Goldsmith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_G... Original song with French lyrics sung by Nicoletta Papillon - Toi qui regardes la mer (You who look at the sea) https://youtu.be/-n4cPCXl1l8 Tu es seul avec tes souvenirs (You are alone with your memories) Et malgré tout ce bleu, tout ce vert, tu est triste a mourir (And despite all this blue, all this green, you are sad to die) Mais quand tu fermes les yeux, un refrain qui te parle en argot (But when you close your eyes, a chorus which speaks to you in familiar words) Fait valser tes jours heureux avec l'odeur du metro (Brings to mind your happy days with the smell of the subway) Chacun s'évade à sa façon (Everyone escapes in his own way) Chacun son rêve, Papillon (Everyone has his dream, Papillon) Toi qui regarde la mer (You who look at the sea) Tu ne vois même plus l'horizon (You don't see the horizon any more) Tu regardes vingt ans en arrière (You look back twenty years ago) Et c'est loin, et c'est bon (and it's a long time, and it's good) Paris existe toujours (Paris still exists) Et quand vient le printemps on peut voir (And when the spring comes, you can see) Les voyous flâner autour des marronniers des boulevards (The gangsters strolling around the Chestnut trees on the boulevards) Les yeux fixés sur un jupon (Their eyes staring at a short skirt) Tu te souviens, Papillon (You remember, Papillon) Toi qui regarde le ciel (You who look at the sky) Tu n'es plus qu'un pauvre homme écrasé (You are no more than a poor decrepit man) Accablé par le poids du soleil (Beaten down by the weight of the sun) Par le poids du passé (By the weight of the past) Mais quand le soir tu t'endors (But when the evening puts you to sleep) En pensées tu retournes là-bas (Your thoughts turn to that place again) Originally uploaded to youtube on July 4th 2020

Lambda - a unit of Wave Length - the measurement of the distance from peak to peak through trough to trough. Into each Little Ray of Sunshine, a Little Sadness must fall. This is the way of life, because seen from another perspective, it is indeed a Roller-coaster. What goes up, must come down. As above, so below. So be happy when you are at the lowest ebb in life. The only way from there is up. Equally, when you are at the peak of joy, know that happiness is always tinged with a tear of sorrow, because the only direction from there is down again. Such is the way of life, and the way it must be. The trick is to recognize it for what it is, and learn to accept that the tide must go out, but it will return again. Learn to chart your course on the seas of life. Learn to meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two Ruddy impostors just the same! Make your own charts and take charge of your own ship. Whether you are cast unto the rocks or reach the next safe port, you will be the Captain of your Soul, the Master of your Fate. In Ernest, this is your Unconquerable Spirit! Fear and Desire. That's what we need to control in ourselves. Otherwise they control us. Like donkeys, we're either led by the nose or whipped in the ass! If we engage in lies, then like Pinocchio, we'll turn into donkeys, no better than farmyard animals, too stubborn to admit where we've gone wrong, and doomed to remain a prisoner to our animal urges and base instincts. If we refuse to take personal responsibility and be in control of ourselves, then someone else will! You can read the encyclopaedia pages shown at the end of this video on my Blog at https://extrapolations.blog/exciting-stories-of-polar-adventure/ Many camels which escaped or were let loose in the Australian outback during the earlier part of the twentieth century went feral and multiplied almost as rapidly as the rabbits and toads! Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but although many were culled, several hundred thousand still exist in the wild. I do remember hearing that some were reimported back to middle eastern countries for breeding and (unfortunately) for eating.