Hmm. I like your version better. It's still abject, I think, but, er, well, can you have abject grandeur? Anyway, you should put it in a book. Or I might steal it from you. Actually I just thought of a place to put it.

I love mishearings and misrememberings, because they feel like they come from outside, but they belong to you.

I think the excitement of having a new comment-er is making my prose a little hyper(bolic/active/adjectival).

--rf