Orchestrion

Regarding Sealegs

 A boat is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are built for. -John A. Shedd

Advancement

"There is, intrinsic to the process of a memoir, the resulting destruction of one's former self. Writing about those years, and being as cruel to who I was as I could be implicitly means that you are killing that person. Yes, you are sometimes celebrating that person's better moments, and relating with sympathy that person's better thoughts, but overall you are saying: This was me then and I can look at that person, from the distance I now have, and throw water balloons on his stupid fat head." -Dave Eggers

on the right fit.

Somewhere out there in the ether there exists a fine line between banjo and cello and electric guitar.

A square peg in a sea of round holes.

I think it's best we take a swim.

Thunderclap

Noise is relative to the silence preceding it.  The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. -V

atop the secret stairs

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing.

barton hollow