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Good heavens, what was he doing - the ghost, I mean? I've been to the Red House, and didn't see any ghosts. How disappointing. I think I might have done if I'd stayed there.
I did once leave some sweet Williams on Britten's grave, I confess. (I thought sweet Williams seemed a suitable flower!) I never thought of writing him a letter to put on it, though, as someone had on Mozart's.
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« Reply #2626 on: 22:56:48, 07-03-2008 » |
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I was in Aldeburgh last year, and I do find the identical gravestones of Britten and Pears, side by side, very touching. Sadly, this photo only shows BB's.  |
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If you had been Britten in a former life, Mary, then we'd have to accept a simultaneous multi-dimensional view of the space-time continuum, since your dates overlap....  There is something decidedly odd about some Mozart adherents (though not all by any means), but then, having been subjected to an evening of G&S anoraks at Buxton (and they think train-spotters are strange?), not to mention having worked with a couple of Wagner-obsessed weirdoes in my time (the sort that call their house Walhalla and their dogs Siegfried, Kundry, or (Lord help us) Hunding, I guess obsessives who dedicate themselves totally to any artistic creator (or partnership) have a tendency to inhabit the further shores of sanity. |
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« Reply #2628 on: 23:09:42, 07-03-2008 » |
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If you had been Britten in a former life, Mary, then we'd have to accept a simultaneous multi-dimensional view of the space-time continuum, since your dates overlap.... Mine don't! Um, I believe one of our members once called a piece of music Hunding!!!  |
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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 #2629 on: 23:12:17, 07-03-2008 » |
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I was in Aldeburgh last year, and I do find the identical gravestones of Britten and Pears, side by side, very touching.
When I left the flowers on Britten's grave, Peter Pears was still alive. There were were other headstones all around, but next to Britten's there was a space. I realised at once who it was for, and I was right. Very touching. |
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« Reply #2630 on: 23:17:50, 07-03-2008 » |
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, not to mention having worked with a couple of Wagner-obsessed weirdoes in my time (the sort that call their house Walhalla and their dogs Siegfried, Kundry, or (Lord help us) Hunding
Britten and Pears had a dog called Gilda! |
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« Reply #2631 on: 00:48:21, 08-03-2008 » |
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« Reply #2632 on: 01:06:13, 08-03-2008 » |
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Makes typing rather difficult I should think. Unless you grew up with FORTH and a teletype.
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« Reply #2633 on: 02:00:29, 08-03-2008 » |
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There was a tiny spider running up the wall to the left of my screen. I touched it and it's fallen off somewhere. No longer in sight That is odd. I had a ladybird in the same place just a couple of hours ago!  |
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« Reply #2634 on: 18:10:27, 08-03-2008 » |
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Right! Time to leave the flat and go to dinner!
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« Reply #2635 on: 21:22:54, 08-03-2008 » |
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Have a nice dinner hh.
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« Reply #2636 on: 23:03:34, 09-03-2008 » |
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Do you think I'll get away with translating Liederstrauss as song-ostrich to the first years tomorrow?
It must be worth a try...
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« Reply #2637 on: 02:47:02, 10-03-2008 » |
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Do you think I'll get away with translating Liederstrauss as song-ostrich to the first years tomorrow?
I think 'bouquet' might do them more good in the long run, but you never know, as long as it guarantees them a job I suppose they won't complain ... |
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« Reply #2638 on: 22:29:50, 10-03-2008 » |
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« Reply #2639 on: 23:10:02, 10-03-2008 » |
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MTOTM, Mort, my brain cells not working again.
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