[lit-ideas] Re: La Stupenda

  • From: "Veronica Caley" <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:43:30 -0400

There are celebrities and then there are artists.  Joan Sutherland was a superb 
singer with a magnificent voice
who gave pleasure to millions of people.  It's not honoring them so much as 
being grateful to them for giving incredible number of hours of pure pleasure, 
beauty and joy.  As have many novelists, instrumentalists and actors.  I would 
never try to physically go near them.  What for?  To touch them, as  people did 
Medieval kings for the magic that would come to one?  The magic was in the 
performance.  And I would seek neither picture nor autograph.  Not needed.  The 
voice in this case is enough.

Re Obama, amen brother.  Except that I am astounded that he has not yet been 
executed.

Veronica Caley

Milford, MI
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Geary 
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 8:44 PM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: La Stupenda


  Sure, you say R.I.P. to these celebrities, but are you going to say the same 
for me?    What does R.I.P. mean anyway?  Roar In Pride?  Rebirth Is 
Propositional?  Reason Is Problematic?  Regeneration Involves Putrefaction?-- I 
could go on for hours, getting grosser and grosser. The thing is, why do we 
honor the death' of celebrities?  I've never known a celebrity.  I once got 
within a hundred yards of Elvis, but he didn't acknowledge me.  Tupelo Asshole! 
  Here's my point just in case you'r wondering what the hell it is --  it is 
this.......  Oh, Christ, now I can't remember what I was going to say. It had 
something to do with envy and resentment and jealousy and feeling unappreciated 
and all that stuff. -- It'll come back to me in a minute.  Meanwhile let's talk 
about our President.  This is all I have to say: Get the fuck out of  Iraq, out 
of Afghanistan, out of Pakistan.  For God's sake, Hussein, we didn't elect a 
socialist-Marxist-Muslim-terrorist-Kenyan President to continue the policies of 
George W. Bush (i.e. Dick Cheney).  We want jihad against the Republican 
demons.  Do it now!!!

  Ach!  I'm worn out.  Maybe tomorrow I'll continue my rant.

  Mike Geary 
  Memphis





  On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:37 PM, <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:

    Dame Joan Sutherland passed away on Oct. 10, 2010

    Bio: "A Prima Donna's Progress"

    From online source:

    "Sutherland was born on November 7, 1926, in Sydney, Australia, to William
    and Muriel (Alston) Sutherland. Her father, a Scottish immigrant and
    tailor,  died of a heart attack on Sutherland's sixth birthday. Joan and 
her elder
    sister  Barbara were raised by their mother, an amateur singer and music
    teacher, and  members of her family.
    Early Musical Education
    While attending St.  Catherine's Girls' School in Waverly, Sutherland
    received her first education in  music, primarily piano, from her mother. 
Muriel
    Sutherland had been taught in  the bel canto tradition which her daughter
    would later help revive interest  in."

    R. I. P.

    Speranza

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