"Freude, schöner GötterfunkenTochter aus Elysium" Thus starts the baritone for "Ode to joy" in the 4th movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony. And my god! it chills me down to the bone. It's monumental. It's vulgarly grand. Its complexity is majestic. Its colour palatial. Its energy opulent. It shines in a resplendent glory of labyrinthine brilliance. [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Chequered and Flagged
The pieces set gleaming in crimson light the players sweat o'er impending fight him taking black, it's me who has the white who gallantly gallops his gallant knight He moves his pawn to gain the center stage and my pawn brings us both on the same page his knight, my bishop, such a trembling rage [...]
Gobbledygook
Attempting as abnormal and arduous an attempt as alphabetical acrobatic - an act aptly askancable. But boneheadedness blinks balkily, barely bothered by balanced but belligerent brethren. Cursing common conceptions-cum-cowardice condemned of a craft culture callously "comme ci, comme ça", conveniently crude. Drained, diluted, and devoid of dare - donning dark, droning, and depressing dreariness- a [...]
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Deeply Fried
I recently completed the autobiography of the British humorist Stephen Fry titled "Moab is my washpot" and saying that it is one of the most satisfying if not the most interesting books ever to have come under my purview would not be an exaggeration. Stephen Fry, as most people would be unaware of given our [...]
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