Wednesday, January 24, 2007
music and ideas
At the risk of adding to the excessive amount of time I've spent recently referring Rare Readers elsewhere, I must mention a wonderful essay at Spiced Sass. I tried to leave a comment there, telling Ligneus how much I like the piece, but comments rejected me no matter what I did, yesterday and today. So I hope he reads this. Anyway, This and That starts off with pop and jazz (Rodgers and Hart [and Hammerstein], 40's big band singers, Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet, Fats Waller, Elvis's Sun recordings, Billie Holiday. . .), moves on to Brahms' awesome Third Symphony, and lands on poetry (Philip Larkin but mainly Thomas Hardy). Hardy's novels have begun to wear thin for me, being so endlessly depressing and glum - I mean, how much of that can a girl read before she seeks a mill on a pond of her own and does herself in? Hardy's poetry is everything good poetry can be, however, and the cited poem is worth the price of admission all by itself. This is the kind of post that exemplifies why blogging holds at least some of the future of literature in its verbal, egalitarian, exciting hand.

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Blogger jau — at 10:26 PM, January 25, 2007:
I wish written words could convey my delight with this. It's wonderful. As are you for taking the time to write it here. Thank you so much!! Your shape is most definitely not phantom-footed.
 

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