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George, I wonder if I might hijack the waffle thread for a moment to ask something that's been vaguely troubling me for 2 or 3 weeks now: why exactly would it be a relief were the world to have less content?
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #1681 on: 13:45:51, 31-08-2007 » |
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I'm watching the memorial service for Princess Diana, and marvelling, as ever, at the Royal Family's apparent ability to sing without opening their mouths. Gordon Brown made a good effort. The joint choirs are ruined by a loud wobbly soprano. It seemed odd, to say the least, to sing the words of the Agnus Dei to Elgar's Nimrod, the hunter.
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« Reply #1682 on: 13:59:47, 31-08-2007 » |
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I was so relieved that she didn't sing in the Faure In Paradisum. I've heard that wrecked by similar singers too often to count. I sat through the Parry "My Soul, there is a Country" dreading the final "Thy God, thy life, thy cure" (loud and high), and sure enough, there she was....
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« Reply #1683 on: 15:07:58, 31-08-2007 » |
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I seem to remember that simialr complaints were made following the Choral evensong broadcast from the Guards' Chapel
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« Reply #1684 on: 15:15:26, 31-08-2007 » |
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George, I wonder if I might hijack the waffle thread for a moment to ask something that's been vaguely troubling me for 2 or 3 weeks now: why exactly would it be a relief were the world to have less content?
I, um, well I suppose there are a number of potential answers to that. Far too many to adumbrate here unfortunately. But let us consider wood, for example, deliberately concealing its teeming liveliness behind a perverse facade of inactivity. The frantic richness of content, the unceasing ambition, masked by its permanently willed immobility is overwhelming and unbearable. If only some portion of that manic striving could be traded in for form! How restful that would be. So much less to accommodate, so much less to apprehend, so much less to cause turmoil. Er, it, or something like it, comes from one of Bruno Schulz's short stories. It's the narrator's father speaking, who may, or more likely may not, be something like Schulz's own father. To be honest I haven't been able to track it down and I may have got the wording slightly wrong. Part of the idea of making it my 'strap line' (something to do with a Brazilian wax?) was the hope that someone might half recognise it and tell me what it should be. |
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« Reply #1685 on: 15:40:58, 31-08-2007 » |
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it, or something like it, comes from one of Bruno Schulz's short stories. It's the narrator's father speaking ... the character who goes insane and thinks he's a bird, you mean? Just checking. |
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« Reply #1686 on: 15:43:15, 31-08-2007 » |
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it, or something like it, comes from one of Bruno Schulz's short stories. It's the narrator's father speaking ... the character who goes insane and thinks he's a bird, you mean? Just checking. OI! I THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE COMPOSING RIGHT NOW? NO WAFFLES - AND BACK TO THE DESK PRONTISSIMO, MR BARRETT! Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #1687 on: 15:45:04, 31-08-2007 » |
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it, or something like it, comes from one of Bruno Schulz's short stories. It's the narrator's father speaking ... the character who goes insane and thinks he's a bird, you mean? Just checking. Yes, that's the one, I think. Either that or he remains sane and does turn into a bird. ("Mannequins"? "Cinnamon something"?) |
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« Reply #1688 on: 15:47:13, 31-08-2007 » |
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« Reply #1689 on: 15:55:51, 31-08-2007 » |
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Richard, that looks suspiciously like Michael Berkeley.
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #1690 on: 16:06:47, 31-08-2007 » |
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Richard, that looks suspiciously like Michael Berkeley.
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« Reply #1691 on: 18:26:45, 31-08-2007 » |
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Sad sight on the pavement in Poynton, Cheshire - a lone piano in the rain, with a sign saying FREE on it.  It's on the Woodford road, a couple of hundred yards from the station if anyone wants to rescue it! |
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« Reply #1693 on: 19:42:48, 31-08-2007 » |
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I'd heard about that Street Piano on Radio 4 a while ago.
If those Poynton people had offered it on Freecycle instead of dumping it on the pavement it could have been spared sitting out in the rain, poor thing, as I'm sure someone would have taken it. I'm going that way again now to pick up my boys from their band practice so I'll see if it's still there.
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« Reply #1694 on: 20:03:11, 31-08-2007 » |
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I do hope somebody rescues it. Trouble is, if it's out in the rain, it's ruined before someone can get a van big enough to take it. It baffles me how people can be so uncaring about getting rid of unwanted pianos - there used to be a craze years ago for dropping them off cliffs! Bizarre.  |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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