when you lament the production of a movie from a book do you begrudge the cinematographer a missing manuscript or the pleasure of a palimpsest or do you regret the absence of Tom Bombadillo while you slide the carved cameo pendant on its golden chain back and forth to center it on your neck? was it the gift of a grandmother a souvenir of a trip to Italy perhaps a honeymoon or some other bombadillo? is your name Cassandra with an e or Smith with a y or Curtis with a k we're all a bit crazy after all the nuns were profligate with the holy water in breaking up a fight in front of the original Lady Evelyn Public School but we started with a script and we've ended with a scrap in this way lovers will hold on to each other when the liking is gone