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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