Patrick, reminded me of some words of Maurizio Kagel, on 'Ten Marches to
Miss the Victory':
"I wrote marches to accompany a politician's monologue, although my
disposition is such that I don't have a great appetite for compositions of
this kind. Basically, I did not feel able to write marches that could be
used to WIN a victory.
"Since the Geneva Convention, musicians (and nursing personnel) in uniform
have not been permitted to carry weapons. But there seems to be a curious
conspiracy of silence surrounding the fact that the acoustic tools of my
trade are actually weapons in their own right. Music, after all, is able to
take root effectively in the minds of those responsible for supervising
warheads..."
P
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> ALARM BELLS
>
> alarm bells rang
> at the airport
> guns were pointed
> areas were cleared
> buildings evacuated
> sirens wailed
> he was stopped
> from boarding
> the plane
> his poems
> were found to be
> under the completely
> banned category
> of
> Inflammatory,
> Hazardous
> and
> Explosive
> Materials.
>
>
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