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On a Swiftly Tilting Planet
Thoughts on Literature, Expressing Creativity, Being Authentic
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Book reviews, poetry and all kinds of literary fun
Book reviews, poetry and all kinds of literary fun
Gert Loveday's Fun with Books 
Schalte den verdammten Staubsauger aus, du schwachsinniger Niemand, ich versuche ein Genie für die Ewigkeit zu sein.
And he IS a genius for he ages! Frohe Weinachten Josie.
Thanks, Gert! Sharing with Jim —
We need a laff at the end of 2020
Gert — several Laffs, and Monty Python is always a good place to start. Our kids watched more Sesame Street than Monty Python, but MP was a significant part of their childhood.
John Cleese seems to have turned into exactly this sort of cranky bastard in his old age. Not too many laffs from him these days.
Other Gert
I guess we haven’t kept up with him. Once we are done ohhing and ahhing over the real estate in Nar Nar Goon, we should get ourselves current.
I will move into the caretaker’s cottage if that’s OK.
Sure! Jim is not sure about the pool. It needs to be 20 metres for his swimming laps. But we can probably fix that, if necessary.
And don’t worry about cattle. Just enjoy the “abundant wildlife” – including of course snakes and red-backed spiders.
I have written a tanka prose about the Huntsman spider, and submitted it. Hope that the journal accepts it. In the process, I found that at least one tribe considers Rigel, one of Orion’s knees, to be Kara, the red-backed spider. I was hoping to find interesting myths associated with the Huntsman, but only found one story (that a grumpy dead female Huntsman played a role in making sure that all of the tribes had different languages, rather like the Tower of Babel — I would have to look up the details.).
You may want to consider a tanka about the red-backed spiders’ habit of appearing in outside toilets, aka “dunnies”.
Next to Bach and Chopin, he’s one of my favourites.
Leslie
Glorious…from Fur Elise to Missa Solemnis.
Over the course of this year ABC Classic has played everything he ever wrote, to celebrate his 250th.
Other Gert
I’ve been playing the start of the slow movement from the Emperor Concerto. The piano part isn’t hard to play – of course it’s hard to play well. But still, to sound the notes oneself is an abiding pleasure.
Dorothy Johnston — so very true —
Some of the early pisno sonatas have easy bits. Myself I’ve always wanted to play Sonata 32 opus 111 which has the crazy almost boogie woogie movement (and is wildly beyond me.)
I never got past chopsticks.
That’s not actually composed by Beethoven. Anon I think. But don’t let thst stop you.
I know the crazy boogie-woogie movement you’re referring to. A long time ago I decided not to worry about the tempo, but just to let the chords sound in my head.
Andras Schiff is very angry about that movement being described as like boogie woogie which he says is ‘banal’ Have he heard his Wigmore Hall talks where he plays and discusses all the piano sonatas ?