[lit-ideas] "E muoio disperato"

In a message dated 5/31/2009 6:57:36 P.M.  Eastern Daylight Time,
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I have always enjoyed  reading your poems, proems and
distillations, even when I didn't read, ---


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Exactly my feeling.

My mother read to me when I was in her womb.

She read all sorts of things: very sweet and calmy.

---.

Geary quotes from my father's favourite book (he had a few)

Ambrose Beirce ("Old Gringo" -- with Jane Fonda, dir. by Luis Puenzo)

who defines 'patience' (and I loved the Groucho) as a form of  'dispair'.

As an Italian (sort of) named "Speranza" (sort of) I feel an outsider
(among Italians who usually end their surnames with an -i):

Puccini had it nicely, "I'll write another Manon (to Massenet's) but mine
will be Italian: full of 'amor dispearato'.

And Cavadarossi pours his soul out as the diminished chords diminish a
tone:

         e muoio dis-perAAAto   ---

                      e muoio   dis  perAAtoo


                           (The best song _EVER_ written).

Cheers,

JL Speranza
     Buenos Aires, Argentina
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