[This is a day late because I was blacklisted for "mail abuse"
yesterday. See how it goes now]
Better to whistle in the dark than bark at a thistle. And, as Kafka
says, Niemand singt so rein als die, welche in der tiefsten Hölle sind;
was wir für den Gesang der Engel halten, ist ihr Gesang - None sings as
purely as those who are in deepest hell; that which we take for the
singing of angels is their song.
According to Offenbach's operetta, Orpheus & Euridice had a lousy bored
marriage; O. only went after E. after vehement promptings by the
personage of Public Opinion.
mj
Stephen Vincent wrote:
> If only Orpheus could have hired the Detective Perry Mason - he would
> have
> gotten the mighty Eurydice up in the Judge's dock. But nothing worse
> than a
> court case without songs. But then again, sometime the accused sing real
> well. If "E" could have only sung as well as "O". The literature, as the
> West acquired it, may have been irrevocably changed. Just imagine "E"
> going
> after "O". Would it have been a different whistle in the dark?
>
> Always looking for the detectives,
>
> Stephen V
> Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
>
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