Funny you should mention chamber pots, as I was thinking about them earlier
today. Apparently there was a degree of intimacy between bedmates in those
days that we no longer share, tho nobody, in a serious vein at least
(Robin: I assume that there's something in the Scottish Chaucerians),
writes about those particular moans and grunts. "My beloved's farts are
like a dove's and smell of gardens." "Lo, he farteth like a young roe,
leaping upon the mauntains."
Question: did couples share the same chamber pot?
Any Annales (anal) historians in the crowd?
Another lost performance, went with my first marriage (if you divorce a
musician be sure to be there when the music's divided): Horszowski
(spelling?) doing the Diabellis.
Mark
At 01:00 PM 5/20/2005, you wrote:
>Have you heard the story about Brahms's beard? That famous identifying
>growth came comparatively late for those days, when he was pushing thirty,
>and so baby-faced that he was refused entry to the casino in Baden-Baden on
>the grounds that he wasn't old enough. So he grew the beard so as to look
>his actual age, and wrote to a friend, 'Prepare your wife for a truly
>terrible one, for I fear that nothing which has been suppressed for so long
>can be beautiful.'
>
>Roger and I spent our honeymoon in Baden-Baden, and I at least was delighted
>to find a house where Brahms used to stay and compose during the summers,
>turned into a museum. His desk and pens, his coffee-machine, his bed, with a
>little cupboard beside it which I opened to find -- yes, his chamber-pot.
>
>best joanna
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 5:26 PM
>Subject: Re: Brahms
>
>
>>And, hey Halvard, if he really said that, he's my kind of person...
>>
>>Doug
>>On 20-May-05, at 9:44 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
>>
>>>How amazing to find this Brahms-fest going on this morning!
>>>I must admit I blow hot and cold on Brahms, but am currently
>>>in a warmish phase, especially with regard to the viola quintets.
>>>
>>>Hal "If there is anyone here I have not
>>> offended, I apologize."
>>> --Johannes Brahms
>>Douglas Barbour
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>>
>>Words cling to other words
>>As we have seen, although even these are
>>Migratory and the forgotten shows through as correction.
>>This noun has been defunct for centuries.
>>
>> Ann Lauterbach
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