Delicious Burdens |
Know what the first rule of flying is? |
(Still here I carry my old delicious burdens;
I carry them, men and women—I carry them with me wherever I go;
I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them;
I am fill’d with them, and I will fill them in return.)
— Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road from Leaves of Grass
Captain Mal: Ain’t all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s’pose you do, since you already know what I’m ‘bout to say.
River: I do. But I like to hear you say it.
Captain Mal: Love. Can know all the math in the ‘verse but take a boat in the air that you don’t love? She’ll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughtta fall down…tell you she’s hurtin’ ‘fore she keens…makes her a home.
— Joss Whedon, Serenity
