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TAPS
Bravo! Take a gold star for concentration! I've never thought of it this way, but I guess posts like mine must be like a sorta test of stamina ; plough thro' it and you'll get your reward in the end.
I really do appreciate your support, especially now that I'm unable to spend as much time reading as I'd like to.
el Tel
posted by
ariel70
on October 22, 2006 at 10:00 AM
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Pat_B
Thank you. It's from a nursery rhyme http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Give+the+poor+barber+a+pinch+of+snuff&meta=
TV is the curse of our age! trivializing, fatuous and highly misleading and damaging. Don't have one, myself. Never had one since we moved here six years ago. I watch DVDs now and again on a laptop, and get my news from papers online.
Life is one hell of a lot better without TV! You oughta try it, gal!
el Tel
posted by
ariel70
on October 22, 2006 at 9:57 AM
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Our brains have been programmed by MTV
to think in sound bites -- ten seconds to a minute, that's enough, (give the poor barber a pinch of snuff
where'd that come from?) Those long involved classical riffs with beginnings and middles and dramatic endings are wrapped and tied in tiny packages. My biggest criticism of today's music -- ballads or what ever -- is that I can't hear the words. And the rhythms and melodies are repetitive. Ten seconds to a minute of that is more than enough. I'll take a classical guitar solo, as Blanche's post described, any day in the week. :)
posted by
Pat_B
on October 22, 2006 at 9:02 AM
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Ariel70, I did it! I made it through the wordy introduction and the poem waiting at the end was well worth the extended effort.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 21, 2006 at 11:03 AM
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Ariel, the phoenix, the tempered steel, and the tested heart,
humbled but but not hardened, what could be a better instrument? Good poem. My own mythological image is Persephone and Eurydice, but finally freed from Hades.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 20, 2006 at 3:52 PM
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