The Wind With No Name

The Blue Knight entered the doldrums, where the Trade Wind was having a well-earned rest.

What can I trade with you for a favour? Said the Blue Knight to the Wind, who was lounging in a hammock holding a cocktail with all the colours of the sunset ranged across.

 How many of these for those, what do you need that I can provide. I have some shiny armour and a nice sharp sword, but I don’t suppose that a Wind has need of those things. Can I contribute my breath to make you stronger? How many breaths for a favour? Two? A thousand? Can I trade my labour? I could make an Aeolian harp for you to express yourself with.

We could have a free Trade deal, Said the Wind, if I knew what it meant.

Why are you called, ’The Trade’ then, are you any good at plumbing or electrics, can you do bricklaying, plastering or decorating? Asked the Blue Knight.

No, none of the above. I facilitate trade between nations and great companies by supplying a reliable source of power to sailing ships that ply their way from coast to coast.

The great container ships and bulk carrying platforms don’t use wind power anymore, said the BK, These days they use fossil fuels, geo stationary satellite guidance and luck. The only sailing ships around these days are for rich folks who like getting lost at sea in expensive bathing costumes.

Should I change my name then, and if so, what shall I change it to, said the Trade Wind, I feel like I’ve lost my raison d’etre.

Perhaps you could be called the ‘The Pointless Wind’ or the ‘The Wind with No Name.’ ventured the Blue knight, You could be played by Clint Eastwood in the film of the same name.

‘The Wind with No Name’ is quite mysterious and romantic in a way, said the Trade Wind thoughtfully.

The Wind With No Name, the wind repeated to itself. So, no trade to be done then. Not even cards in the playground. No trading punches, kisses or looks? No import-export? No retail? I do like to go shopping.

What does the Wind With No Name do? Mused the Wind, blow into town from nowhere and take on the bad guys who have been making the lives of the honest townsfolk a misery? Strike a blow for justice?

Perhaps I could play the rugged, but soft hearted, lead in a block buster movie, in which I rescue an innocent young person from a horrible crew of nasty people. I then discover that the Nasty Crew are planning to destroy civilisation as we know it and replace it with a system designed to make electric vehicles with robot machines, only they will make people do the work of robots. Whilst the Nasty Crew laugh and joke and drink expensive brandy and eat exotic nibbles by the side of an eternity pool.

I could creep into the amazing, modern, millionaires house, with glass panels and angles everywhere and convince the Nasty Crew to mend their ways.

I thought you were going to say, take them out with a violent explosive device.

I was, but I changed my mind as I would like it to be considered a family film.

Ok, said the BK, let me get this down. You will do me the favour of dispersing a single drop of Kindness, if I can persuade a famous film director to cast you in a film with some of the plot elements that you have stipulated.

Correct, said the Wind With No Name.

Done deal, said the BK.