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Thread #49810   Message #753969
Posted By: GUEST,Fred Miller
24-Jul-02 - 04:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: apology/introduction
Subject: RE: BS: apology/introduction
Hello again, thanks for the welcome! Here we say Lou with conviction and uhvul as though we are sorry we brought it up. Why I wanted the lyrics to rap 'er to bank? heard it on the Wattersons Early Days and couldn't make out all the words. I don't especially follow that stuff, but love the Watterson's harmonies, vocal sound. Had a hard time finding their stuff until I asked someone at a local Irish fest, who had it buy the barrel. Hard to say anything coherent about my dad's stuff. "It's f***ing great!" I guess. As a poet he had a deceptively casual, conversational voice, and his stuff always seems better on re-reading than I remember it being. His essays too. He wrote less fiction, and in my own undisciplined, unschooled, maybe muddled and quasi-literate opinion, his fiction suffers from his commitment as an educator. He was unwilling to lose a reader who couldn't keep up, and some of the stuff sags with the burden of earnestness, I think. Would the renovated theatre in louisville be the Bunbury? Kat? Is Juergen on here? or a friend? There's also been some stuff going on at an old movie theatre on fourth--our local brilliant puppeteers did something there, and my friend Addie curated her first art show there, on a childbirth theme. Shouldn't try to explain my Hamlet remark. shouldn't drift. Especially not there. But I will anyway. I've always been fascinated by the way in Hamlet that one thing comes to replace another, from the changing of the guard in the first scene, to the change of the kingdom at the end, and I used to do a comparison of it to The Invasion of The Bodysnatchers. So when people debate whether something may have had historical roots in something else, I sometimes think that some are seeing the continuity and likeness, (the brother kings, the old bones are dug up to bury the new dead, etc.)while others are wanting to emphasise the particularity, and may even be offended by suggestion that a custom has old roots in something else. Hamlet sees no likeness in the brother kings, only a great falling off. So my point was that it's a matter of how one sees the evidence, as well as how much evidence there may be. Thanks everyone for the welcome and advice. I hope to find an inexpensive isp that isn't in any way shape or form connected to aol. aol messed up my previous computer totally, and when I got rid of it all the pages errors healed themselves. this free thing is an aol deal, and already doesn't want to close--I had to pull the jack out of the wall to log off. Seems pricey for a virus.