Sunday, December 16, 2007
Birthdays
Today (or yesterday or tomorrow, depending on which calendar you use) is the birthday of both Jane Austen and Ludwig van Beethoven. A fortuitous date upon which to be born, clearly. There is very little that equals almost all of Beethoven's music, in power and melody and brilliance. The fifth symphony? The ninth? What more is there?! And isn't it absolutely astonishing that Jane was born 232 years ago?! That's over two hundred blooming years ago, for heaven's sake. And yet her stories continue to engage and entrance, and her characters continue to come entirely and totally to life. Elizabeth Bennett, Mr Darcy, Anne Elliott are friends of ours all these years later, people whose names and persons bring joy. Happy happy day.

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Blogger ligneus — at 9:34 PM, December 17, 2007:
I'm very bad at remembering who said things, [I'm very bad at remembering a lot of things!] but some musical person once said that sometimes when every thing in your life seems to be wrong you happen across some Beethoven and are thankful that something is right in the world.

Or words to that effect.
 

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