"how did I become so obnoxious / what is it with you that makes me act like this"

Random observations:

Just how lonely are the clouds in the Lake District, anyway? And do they wander about? Given the climate, I would think they'd be many and close together, and travel the wind's straight path.

(Yes, yes, I know: in context Wordsworth's saying he was apart from others the way a high cloud is apart from the earth, with an emotional distance. But he's the one who chose to use ambiguous syntax and break the line where he did, creating the easy alternate reading.)

Meanwhile, in the Department of Feeling Uncultured, I hadn't realized that Laurence Alma-Tadema was a woman. Her name was originally Laurense, which is apparently the female form of Laurens, the Dutch Laurence.

(Memo to self: just because I am a male Laurence, doesn't mean it's always a male name.)

If you're in a meeting that includes people of a certain generation, and someone says "Anybody?" and gets no response, the odds are, someone will finally say, "Bueller?"

(My cultural literacy: let me show you how dated it is.)

---L.