Beep Beep Beep

[poliphilo]

Somewhere in the neighbourhood a house alarm has been triggered. It beeps for five minutes, goes silent for another five, then starts up again. It's been going for something like 36 hours now. I tried wrestling with it last night- pretending that it was cicadas or the creak of Don Quixote's windmill- but in the end I gave up and reached for the improvised ear-plugs.

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[archyena.livejournal.com]

Well, it's good that didn't work. If the windmill creaks, you're obliged to charge.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I feel like charging. It's still squeaking away. What if the house owners have gone on holiday for a fortnight? What if they're Pakistanis and they've gone back to the homeland for three months (as is entirely possible)?

Creak, creak, creak, creak.....

[archyena.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it is time to brush down Rosinante, don your paper helmet, and take down this menace once and for all.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And the fair Dulcinea will smile on me...

[archyena.livejournal.com]

Who would not smile upon a knight like yourself? You may be upward in years, but you could be the next Don Belianis, and I'm sure you would be if you were not absorbed in other, greater thoughts.