Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.... ~ My books are not taken seriously. But that's all right; they are given playfully. ~ How can I be so evil? It ain't easy. ~ Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot. ~ Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs. ~
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