"Price of Command"

	The following message is a bit off-topic, but it does include
	a song, and I know a lot of you are B5 fans, so I'm posting 
	it anyway.  If you dislike the show, or are paranoid about 
	spoilers for last week's episode, here's your chance to get
	out:

	touch-up-back-2-3
	touch-up-back-2-3
	front-2-3
	back-2-3
	up-and-back-and-back-2-3



	(repeat with left foot)



	touch-up-and-back-2-3
	turn-kick-back-2-3
	turn-kick-back-2-3
	up-and-back-and-back-2-3



	(repeat with left foot)



	step-hit-and-back-2-3
	step-hit-and-back-2-3
	step-hit-and-back-2-3
	rise and grind and back 2 3



	(repeat with left foot on other diagonal)



	Ok that should be enough jig step for now.  (I at least try 
	to make my spoiler space different. :)

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	On "The Long Night" = Sheridan says "We're between the Vorlons
	and the Shadows."  My thought was "I am Grey.  I stand between
	the candle and the star.  We are Grey, we stand between the
	darkness and the light."  JMS is a real bastard (and I mean
	that in the nicest, thought-provoking sense of the word :)
	when it comes to parallels like this sometimes, isn't he?

	On "Grey 17 is Missing" and other themes = In one of the last
	scenes when Delenn and Lennier are looking at Marcus, beaten 
	to a pulp, in Medlab; she begins to realize just some of what
	being Entil'zha might mean:  That sometimes being a leader means
	sending your people off to die, or accepting that they will make
	that choice themselves because they know it is the right and 
	necessary thing to do.  Most of the Earthforce leaders (namely
	Sinclair & Sheridan) had shown they know this, and even Lennier
	demonstrated his grasp of the concept in his remarks to her; but
	it's a tough thing to take in.  As I was watching this scene, I
	remembered a filksong from Mercedes Lackey's "Vows of Honor" (aka 
	the Tarma & Kethry) series, called "The Price of Command".  To
	indulge briefly, here it is:

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	"The Price of Command"
	[Words by Mercedes Lackey, music by Leslie Fish.
	On _Oathbound_ by Firebird Arts & Music, (c) 1989.]

	This is the price of commanding --
	That you always stand alone,
	Letting no one near
	To see the fear
	That's behind the mask you've grown.
	This is the price of commanding.

	This is the price of commanding --
	That you watch your dearest die,
	Sending women and men 
	To fight again,
	And you never tell them why.
	This is the price of commanding.

	This is the price of commanding --
	That mistakes are signed in red;
	And that you won't pay
	But others may,
	And your best may wind up dead.
	This is the price of commanding.

	This is the price of commanding --
	All the deaths that haunt your sleep;
	And you hope they forgive
	And so you live
	With your memories buried deep.
	This is the price of commanding.

	This is the price of commanding --
	That if you won't, others will.
	So you take your post,
	Salute each ghost,
	You've a debt to them to fill.
	This is the price of commanding --

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	It's an awful job sometimes, but better a leader with a 
	heart for their people and a soul that cries; than someone
	who doesn't care and just goes about their job without a 
	thought for the consequences.
	
	Right, I'm getting maudlin, definitely bedtime.  Thanks for 
	listening!  I'll see many of you Saturday.

				Quarong
				<quarong at eskimo.com>