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Great parody, Martin, it made me laugh through my post-Christmas headache - Yes, keep on trying on Glass - tho have you heard the music he composed for a production of Genet's The Screens? I really like it, and the repetitions work uh less neurotically - I think he wrote marvellous theatre music, which includes the operas. But lots of quite respectable people dislike him, including my closest musical collaborator, a composer who knows a lot more about music than I do. As for Tolkien - my husband can't read the books either, he gets impatient about page 2. But he's really hanging out for the movie too. Thanks for the comments on the poem, Martin and others - much appreciated. Cheers Alison >Am I the only one on the list not to get Tolkien ~ or rather, not to have >got, since I read them when I was 17 four decades ago ~? I even prefer >Wagner's egregiously alliterative libretto to that mouldy old professorial >fustian, quite apart from the musical glory & the power of the story of the >_Ring des Nibelungen_. Speaking of music & of dislikes, here's a rant >composed during the prelapsarian summer: > >ADNI >I hate Glass. So transparently repetitive. >I hate Glass. So glassily unfeeling. >I hate Glass. Glass Glass. So grassrootedly pprimitive so glaucously >fffrangible so >Pppoor in Variation >(unlike Reich)~ >no,not another Glass! >So singularly unspectacular, so glass-harmonically nerve-racking Glass. >Glass lags way behind and can't kick ass. I hate Glass I hate Glass I hate >Glass >I hate Glass. All notes are grass in Glass. All fashion only in a Glass, his >ssounds leave me glassy-eyed. >So unfocused, so unreflective, so coolly congealed, >so chromatically threadbare, nay so colourless Glass, >so rigidly gelatinous, so microscopically monotonous, >so overblown Glass. Fillup Glass.Ever half-empty Glass. >So Glass. So Glass. Sglass. Slass. Ass. Ssol. So la la. Sol fa la la. La la >la. Gla. Gaga. Ga. >I hate. Aye I. Hate.Glass. Blast Glass. Ghastly Glass. >Glass Glass. >(Ad Dei Nauseam Infinitam) >----------------------------------------------------------- >~ has to be read with the bleating Amurrican "a", not as in "arse". >I'll go on trying with Fillup, though; maybe I should check out that movie & >then the books again, after all. >Martin -- Alison Croggon Home page http://www.users.bigpond.com/acroggon/ Masthead http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/