07/2012

woody allen parodies the various forms of illusions human beings chase. his fellow tribesman, solomon, hinted at a similar insight in ecclesiastics. when he referred to all human dreams of earthly joy as “chasing the wind”
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scherzo from brecknell’s 9th symphony

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impotent - rSM - emasculated
peace - GJc - estrogen
war - EdF - testosterone
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hahahahaha.. i was going to say touché, but then i realized that i only enact tragedies not romances. at best, farces, if i'm to be easy on myself)


On Jul 23, 2012, at 5:03 PM, xxxx xxxxxxxx <pxxxxxgwa@gmail.com> wrote:

You watch romances? Or act them?

-- Peter M. S.

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I was going through the park last Sunday, and close by the Marble arch there stood a little crowd of shabby-looking people listening to some vulgar street-preacher. As I passed by, I heard the man yelling out that question to his audience. It struck me as being rather dramatic. London is very rich in curious effects of that kind. A wet Sunday, an uncouth Christian in a mackintosh, a ring of sickly white faces under a broken roof of dripping umbrellas, and a wonderful phrase flung into the air by shrill hysterical lips -- it was really very good in its way, quite a suggestion. I thought of telling the prophet that art had a soul, but that man had not. I am afraid, however, he would not have understood me