How did Lanier come up in the first place, Robin? I know you you mentioned
him to me, but hanged if I remember why. It's an interesting theory, but I
don't remember feeling very impressed at the way he formulated it. And I
really don't care for his work, though I believe Roger likes him. In fact,
not to put too fine a point on it, I was disappointed as well as interested.
Just occurs to me though -- I wonder if the fact that he was a flautist
rather than, say, a violinist mightn't have had some connection with the
poetry. Breathing an' that. I've been too busy wondering how a man who
fought TB for most of his adult life could manage to play the flute to a
professional standard (now that I *do admire him for, though we won't be
talking James Galway stuff, from a historical point of view), to think what
else the fact of breath, bar, phrase might affect. Or even effect, in this
particular case.
joanna
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