There was a man who would marry his mother, and asked his br father for his mother's hand in marriage, and was told he could br not marry his mother's hand because it was attached to all br the rest of mother, which was all married to his father; that br he'd have to love something else . . . br br And so he went into the world to love something else, and br fell in love with a dining room. br He asked someone standing there, may I have this dining br room's hand in marriage? br You may not, its hand is attached to all the rest of it, br which has all been promised to me in connubial alliance, said br someone standing there. br Just because the dining room lives in your house doesn't br necessarily give you claim to its affections . . . br Yes it does, for a dining room is always to be married to br the heir apparent in the line of succession; after father it's br my turn; and only if all mankind were destroyed could you br succeed any other to the hand of this dining room. You'll have br to love something else . . . br br And so the man who would marry his mother was again in the br world looking for something to love that was not already br loved . . .