[lit-ideas] Re: FW: Six Characters in Search of an Author

  • From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:05:28 -0500

Yes. Yes.  Wonderful lines.  Wise and funny and heart-stoppingly true.

Another favourite of mine is the verse about Jesus in the middle of Leonard Cohen's Suzanne.

And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone

And, of course, The Beatle's, Let it Be.

Ursula,
always armoured by music...

Andy Amago wrote:

With me it wasn't the superstition but the quietness of the song.  It
worked the way a meditation might.  This was before meditation was popular.
I'm sure that's how prayer works too, through its meditative, repetitive
quality, by focusing the mind.  I don't really meditate.  I've always liked
Glen Campbell.  Bobby McGee, especially by Janice Joplin but I'll take Kris
Kristofferson, is on my list of ten all time best songs ever written.





[Original Message]
From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/27/2005 12:25:41 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: FW: Six Characters in Search of an Author

Superstitious behaviour works every time. I used to say the Lord's Prayer just under my breath whenever my kids woke at night. I believed (still do) that my chanting put them magically back to sleep. And it was the chanting...I didn't have to mean it...just mouth the words...incantatory...magic...
Ursula


Andy Amago wrote:



I used to use him to get to sleep a gazillion years ago. When I couldn't
get to sleep, in my mind I'd sing I was a lineman for the county ...


Worked


every time.  I have this vague idea I heard him interviewed once.  A
dysfunctional person, like everybody.  I'm wearing out this word
dysfunctional.  Now I'm sure people read my posts when they can't get to
sleep.  That's because I'm dysfunctional.  That's why I think that.




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