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Thread #53388 Message #821453
Posted By: GUEST,Fred Miller
08-Nov-02 - 10:39 AM
Thread Name: Search for the saddest song ever.
Subject: RE: Search for the saddest song ever.
Amos, check out Nabokov on Freud, or translation of literature, or on Mann, or Gorky, or Doestoyevsky, or bathtubs that are too small, or whatever. Try Strong Opinions, a book of this stuff.
For gloomy I second Twa Corbies, but for sad I've always thought The Juniper Tree was peculiarly sad because of the mask of it's bright tone.