[lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:24:10 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
To associate Beethoven with your barbaric ideations of vaporizing people
demeans Beethoven. On the other hand, I've said all along that artists,
composers, writers are just plain ordinary everyday run of the mill people who
can do something better than others. So, likely "artistes" are as foul as you
imply, because they're only human.
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>From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jan 2, 2007 9:12 PM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot
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> >>I wait for the day it dawns on you like the eclat of some
>heavenly visitation: anger does not sharpen the heart, but
>only blunts the mind.
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>That is not quite true. To pick an example sympathetic to
>your politics, Beethoven's anger at the aristocracy and
>later with Bonaparte, stimulated his middle period work such
>as in the Eroica. It also helped drive his later work,
>particularly his setting of Schiller in the Ninth, with its
>expression of universal brotherhood. The same passions are
>at work in his Choral Fantasy for piano, orchestra, and voices.
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