I just came across what looks like a thousand confiscated bottles of illegal substance at a highway customs check point. These dark bottles looked like chloroform. Maybe they were trying to hunt down King Kong?
If you are happy, I will give you an apple, if you are anxious, I will twist your arm, and if you permit me, I will be glad to hold you close to my heart forever and do you no harm.
If I am happy, will you give me an apple? If I am anxious, you may twist my arm. And if you would like to, I would like you to hold me close to your heart forever and do me no harm.
This is a bargain, only two can make it. This is a covenant offered with desperate calm, it being uncertain that lovers can drive out demons with the gift of an apple or the twist of an arm.