“The first true love that folded at the slightest touch,brought down like an old hotel,people digging through the rubble for things they can resell.<BR”

— Elliott Smith

Junk Bond Trader.
Lyrics, Figure 8 (2000)

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American singer-songwriter 1969–2003

Marsha M. Linehan (1943) psychologist, professor, author

“He loved me true did Harry-boy and I loved him true, and if the happiness we gave each other was wicked and wrong in the eyes of the Law and the Church and God Almighty, then the Law and the Church and God Almighty can go dig a hole and fall down it.”

Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer

Me and the Girls (1964).

“As I came down the Highgate Hill,
The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill,
As I came down the Highgate Hill
I met the sun's bravado,
And saw below me, fold on fold,
Grey to pearl and pearl to gold,
This London like a land of old,
The land of Eldorado.”

Henry Howarth Bashford (1880–1961) British physician and writer

London, from Romances http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/authors/henry_howarth_bashford_a001.htm (1917). Compare: Alfred Noyes, Go down to Kew in Lilac-time.

“Bored in a role, but he can't stopStanding up to sit back down,and lose the one thing found.Spinning the world like a toy top'till there's a ghost in every town.<BR”

Elliott Smith (1969–2003) American singer-songwriter

Can't Make A Sound.
Lyrics, Figure 8 (2000)

“Dig down to solid bottom, if it can be found”

Vitruvius book De architectura

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter V "The City Walls" Sec. 1
Context: After insuring on these principles the healthfulness of the future city... the next thing to do is to lay the foundations for the towers and walls. Dig down to solid bottom, if it can be found, and lay them therein, going as deep as the magnitude of the proposed work seems to require. They should be much thicker than the part of the walls that will appear above ground and their structure should be as solid as it can possibly be laid.