tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40686188464475865462024-03-13T02:56:43.717+00:00THE MIRROR AND THE LAMPknighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17322808435084419537noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068618846447586546.post-71274503472704197682012-03-20T16:20:00.018+00:002012-03-20T20:52:17.861+00:00Bergamo 2012: it's that man again!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN4RIx_ASFXQS0-JK4lDh1uZe8oslOQIMr_ZqWGwSokS4WIKFhRzSZ-96ZlS30xas0RYu3zEetxRLsQHSyKPJKZhgp0spc-3wQwnKseDnp9NGnNqmQjicy4rUDIeg5hCiafaQdZNwllTg/s1600/DSCF5585.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN4RIx_ASFXQS0-JK4lDh1uZe8oslOQIMr_ZqWGwSokS4WIKFhRzSZ-96ZlS30xas0RYu3zEetxRLsQHSyKPJKZhgp0spc-3wQwnKseDnp9NGnNqmQjicy4rUDIeg5hCiafaQdZNwllTg/s320/DSCF5585.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">Napoleon was here too! Let’s get that out of the way first. He turned up, annexed the city and for no reason I could discover knocked down the substantial church attached to the largest monastery in the area. (He also knocked down a church in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Venice</place></city>; but they can spare one or two there.) </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">Mind you I would not mind whitewashing a few of the Baroque interiors. The most offensive is in the Cappella Colleoni a 14<sup>th</sup> century attachment to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. As wealthy men will do, they want to leave something significant by which people will remember them. Often this was an offering or an attempt to bribe the church and even higher authorities. In this instance Captain Colleoni was not unusually bad; but he fell in with the tradition of leaving something to exalt God; and himself. However he did rather tempt fate, as he knocked down a substantial portion of the church to make room for his burial chapel. It is a knockout. Perpendicular Gothic with a rose window, it is covered in marble deploying polychromatic patterns. It shoots up skyward in exuberance and is a highlight of the visit. However; inside some mutt decided, much later, to let lose a painter to produce jarring baroque paintings that come as a real shock to the system. They are by a master, Tiepelo; I would nevertheless whitewash them, then take the bucket and brush across town to several other monstrous interiors.</span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">Donizetti lived and wrote his operas for the local house. Pope John XXIII was born close by and returned to the city from <city w:st="on">Rome</city> to assist the bishop of <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Bergamo</place></city>. Borromeo was an earlier bishop. In those days church princes lead quite hectic lives. Having made rather more than his share of enemies, one hired an assassin. No respecter of church or its employees, he shot Borromeo while he was officiating at mass. Although he thought that he had been fatally wounded, his robes were so thick that the ball did not penetrate the skin. It did leave a mark on him that he took to his eventual grave. But it left him time enough to leave extensive writing that, hundreds of years later, was to influence the young man who would become pope. One church contains a room devoted to the deceased local boy made pope. This contains the original coffin in which John was buried beneath the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Vatican</place></country-region> in 1963. However, since he now resides encased in glass beneath an altar in St Peter’s; the locals were presumably able to acquire the discarded casket.</span></span></span></div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">This is a city on three geographic levels with two funiculars, some distance from one another, that connect the elements of the city. Down on the plain sits the more modern city: though there are some ancient stranded buildings and a large area of 19<sup>th</sup> century city planning. On this short visit we confined ourselves to the two upper parts of the city. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">The weather was not kind to us; but neither was it as cruel as the BBC site predicted. We should have had three days of solid rain. In the event, the heavy skies mainly rolled over us without dumping enough to raise an umbrella; on our last day though we sat in a café to escape the worst of a substantial and extended thunder storm. The historic areas are very well preserved. The city has been fortunate, or wise, to preserve so much that is ancient. The back streets were very quiet and it was a pleasure to see what lay round a corner, or down some steps. The higgledy piggldy melee is a treat to walk through.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">This is quite a wealthy city, there are a lot of very large and well maintained houses. The locals do not display the style of <city w:st="on">Milan</city> or <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Bologna, they do not provide a parade of designer clothes as is evident in those two other cities. They do however, and typically, take their food very seriously. The thinking about food clearly feeds into Italian identity. It seems that no patrotic Italian would bother with the food of another country, well....another region. Wherever you are in the country it is difficult to find food from elsewhere. If you can’t stomach tomato or cheese; pack your bag with Mars Bars or you will go hungry. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">Here the specialities of the area are not found in the bog standard Italian restaurant in GB. I saw one mention each of spaghetti carbonara and of lasagna. The real obsession here, like potatoes to the Irish, is polenta. It comes in a variety of textures, wall paper paste, porridge or marsh mallow. Any of the ways, boiled, fried or hidden under cheese, it is pretty tasteless, but is a firm staple here. There is even a polenta fast food outlet across the square from the top of the lower funicular. We tried the polenta a couple of times then decided to avoid it. On one occasion it arrived as part of a spectacular main course for two consisting of roast pork, rabbit and a large piece of lamb. This latter looked like a ship being tossed around in a frozen mountainous sea of orange polenta. We gazed at a menu entry of ‘donkey, polenta and rocket. OK; hold the donkey, forget the polenta and I will go for the rocket. Actually; never mind, let’s move along. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">The ‘P’ stuff is ever adaptable and is also made into sweet gunk, sold in bowler hat shape to fit the smallest baby or the largest head of any adult. But once we weeded out the noxious stuff; we enjoyed many dishes such as the ravioli with bacon in a very light and sparing sauce, the ragouts, the wonderful breadsalso the ‘lard’ which is very thinly cut pork taken from just under the skin, sweet fat to clog the arteries.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This was not so much a hit and run visit: more a slow slouch with much pause for coffee and to read. We needed a chill out and it was just the ticket. We deliberately left much undone. Once on the plane it takes about an hour and three quarters and that equates to my commute to <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">London</place></city>. Up early this morning to come home; with the airport only three miles from the city, we were home by 10am, the merest hop, skip and jump! Now, all we need is a bit of leave and some money……… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</div>knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17322808435084419537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068618846447586546.post-19349933222424411392011-10-08T17:01:00.006+01:002011-10-08T21:44:21.376+01:00Auschwitz-BirkenauWhen I was a teenager I became friendly with an aging Polish woman called Sophie Sydow. She mentored me through my musical listening and we spent hours, at the record shop she managed, her getting me to try recordings, explore music, gain some kind of critical standards and telling me a great deal about life in Poland before and during WWII. <br />
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It was a pretty tragic tale. Her father had been a diplomat. He simply disappeared. A week later her sister was raped and murdered and her brother hung himself in the nearby woods, Sophie found the body. Other relatives were bundled off into concentration camps. She met up with her husband Matt and supported him in the Polish Resistance. Later they came to the UK to escape communism and lived a quiet life looking after stray animals, on a fairly epic scale.<br />
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But even in the 1970s life provided new tragedy. Her only child, Nina, was murdered in Greece. Assaulted and left face down in a puddle the girl drowned. Sophie spent much money and ended up losing her job while she travelled back and forth to challenge the lack of outcome from the investigations of the Greek authorities. She died of heart disease, a heart-sick woman in many ways. Matt lived on for about 15 years looking after the animals.<br />
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Her story pervaded my impressions of Poland, once a wonderful country, hugely depleted by the nazi invasion, then communist suppression.<br />
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I thought about her when we were in Krakow, though her family was from Warsaw. I thought about her when we visited Auschwitz-Birkenau.<br />
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What are visitors up to when they come here? The Second World War finished 66 years ago. The oldest people I saw there would have been children then, but could well have gone to remember relatives of an earlier generation. One or two quite young Jewish men were clearly distressed. Some people came to make commemoration.<br />
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But how about all of us who are tourists? Those of us who have no known connection to the people who perished there. We variously went to the salt mines, we climbed up to the castle at Krakow, we took a bus trip to the concentration camp.<br />
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Before we went I was very ambivalent about this trip. My wife was intent upon it and fine about going alone. I had been told it was tidy, clean and there were nice trees all around. Of course, it had to be sanitised for so many reasons, but I did not like the hint of theme park that was suggested by more than one person.<br />
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We did both however go. Facilely I wondered what the weather would be like. Surely, it at least ought to be raining. Sunshine would be inappropriate; despite it being obvious that there would have been normal weather in the area when it was full of prisoners. Somehow, I imagine it to exist in a black and white world of wartime film.<br />
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It was sunny. Despite this, there was plenty to make one go cold if not actually numb. We thought that we had a reasonable grip on what had happened and why; no, our knowledge was half digested, barely half remembered. <br />
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The journey out from Krakow takes about an hour and a half. On the bus there were about 25 people, one retired couple, us and then the next oldest would be about 30. Three young twenties females sat near us and were intent on phone swapping last night's drinking photos. But the organisers had other ideas and a documentary film was put onto the system. The group fell silent.<br />
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These two camps were liberated by the Russians. The film was shot by a cameraman who, 40 years later, explained the circumstances; one of which was that at the liberation the inmates were frightened and traumatised. There was no joy and there were no smiling faces. In an attempt to provide more appropriate propaganda; months later some former prisoners were coaxed to return and seemingly burst out of their prison as the Russians arrived; joy unconfined and these remnants strode cheerily in front of the camera, waving, smiling and well dressed.<br />
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Some kind of sense prevailed and the reconstructions were never used. The film was silent about the Russians basically moving a number of prisoners to Russian work-camps. Silence also prevailed on the bus from the start of the film until we arrived at Auschwitz. A<em> </em>kind of preparation for the visit had taken place.<br />
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The names of the camps were Germanised versions of the local Polish place names. Auschwitz was the first camp. As such, its design was not up to the Final Solution in its comparitave lack of factory efficiency. The gas chamber could only accommodate around 250 killings at a time and darn it, the warehouses storing the possessions of the victims was an inconvienient distance from the railway. Auschwitz had been set up primarily as a labour camp. So, once the trawling in of the Jews, Gypsies, Political Prisoners, Homosexuals and general undesirables became a Europe Wide policy for the nazis, the nearby Birkenau was set up on a staggering scale as part slave camp, part killing ground.<br />
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By January of 1945 it became clear that the Germans would lose the war and in preparation for withdrawal there was a half hearted attempt to dispose of evidence by blowing up the underground gas chambers in Birkenau and march off the prisoners who were deemed possibly useful. On the vast site only around 5,000 survivors remained to be rescued. <br />
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Birkenau was a kind of model camp and over 30 others were built in Upper Silesia. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">We encountered our guide at the entry to Auschwitz. We were given headphones and a receiver. The guide confided the facts and figures as though just to each individual, like a voice inside your head. Even when in another room, she spoke directly into my ear. She was short, red haired, in her late 40s and with a deep gravel voice. Her delivery was succinct, low key, but exceptionally powerful. Throughout the entire three hours, the words 'German' and 'Germany' never passed the lips of the guide. Auschwitz had been staffed only by SS and reference made to nazis. German visitors are allowed the dignity of being distanced from the perpetrators. Rather more dignity than was allowed to the more than 1,000,000 people who died within the two camps.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Currently I am re-reading Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'. It tells the story of the Chicago stockyards at the turn from the 19th Century to 20th. Eastern European immigrants were exploited there and the ever innovative factory owners boasted of a system utilising every part of a pig except its squeak. Bones became fertiliser or buttons or combs, hides made into all sorts; the meat itself vital, but by no means the sole product. The meat-packer owners set up adjacent soap and glue factories. The area became ultra efficient at making money for the rich; and notorious for the way the health of the workers was carelessly damaged. Like Dickens before him, Sinclair exposed to the world unethical methods of production and the outrage effected some changes of law to lighten the lives of those blighted by the system.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">All of that factory efficiency and ingenuity in the use for any part of the animal came to mind during the tour of the prison camps. The first thing to go was your dignity. 70 people in a rail truck with only a bucket as a toilet and transported up to 2000 kms from as far as Greece or Norway. Lack of privacy across perhaps 10 days, lack of food or water; living amongst those who died all added to the great heat or extreme cold to produce an initial filter for those too old, young or weak to survive the conditions of the journey. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">At journey end those stumbling out of the trucks were lined up and men were separated from women. Their 25 kilos per head of luggage was left on the platform to be stored in warehouses once the contents were sorted. Those deemed strong were marched off to the work camp, the others 'cleaned' up, hair chopped off, clothes removed and then driven into the gas chamber, then dragged to the ovens.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The nazi's were big on admin, so notated in detail the millions of dresses, coats, shoes, suits, pairs of glasses and artificial limbs confiscated to be sold to the citizens back in Germany. Hair was all treated to make clean it and bailed like hay. It was then woven into fabric, socks for submariners, blankets. Gold was pulled out of the teeth of the dead. After a while, the water sources now grey and clogged with human ashes, they spread new ashes across the nearby fields as fertiliser. After the war the collected hair was chemically tested as it was uniformly grey, it bore traces of Zyklone B, despite it having been removed prior to death. The air outside the chambers must have been invaded by small penetrations of it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Gypsies, twins and any other people deemed of interest were experimented on in the hospital; Mengale who lead the work escaped a few days before the Russians arrived; he was never caught.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">So, what were the ones who were chosen to work actually doing?<br />
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Once the much larger Birkenau was being built, many German factories were re-sited out of Germany into the area and contracts were set up between the industrialists and the camps for a continuous fresh supply of slave labour. Too many were dying merely of the long walks to the factories, thus mini camps sprung up around the furthest away ones.<br />
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IG Farben was one of the largest industrial companies in the world. It chose which factories it wanted to take over and to extend using slave labour on the building works and as workers in its chemical factories. It produced much of the Zyklon B that was used to kill its own slave labour. To date shares in the company continue to be traded; though it is in a continued state of liquidation with assets worth many millions of Euros.<br />
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A subsistence diet was provided. The accommodation was in crowded huts with poor heating and gaps between the top of the walls and the roof. The winter temperatures were similar out or in the huts. Going round and gazing at corridors of photographs of the inmates, each had three pieces of information, birth date, date of admission, date of death.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
Even young and strong looking people, if they arrived in January, they would almost all be dead by March. The sole clothing; thin striped suits and clogs, was no defense against the cold. Brutality was a default setting. Minor infringements were met with various tortures or deprivations, including the 'four to a cell'. The cell being about the size of a telephone box; many suffocated from this treatment. <br />
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Many committed suicide by holding onto the electric wire fencing.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
Those with the first 1000 numbers tattooed onto them often lasted the full five years. These initial inmates were the inside admin workers and escaped the worst privations of working outside each winter. First in and last out in a strange twist of fate.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The 'wall of death' in Auschwitz was where prisoners were shot, no one can even guess how many. Mobile gallows were trundled about and if any prisoner escaped, 10 were randomly chosen during roll call and hung in front of the assembly. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Over at Birkenau the railway tracks run the 1200 meters through the centre of the camp, dividing it; women's camp to one side of the track, mens' on the other. Half way along a wooden rail cattle-truck is sited to mark 'The Place of Choosing'. Here, as the people were disgorged, immediate decisions were taken by doctors. The doctor indicated with his thumb to left or to right, each was then consigned either to the gas chamber or to the work huts. Those to die were walked 600 meters to the new underground chambers to be gassed. 5000 could be disposed of a day, despite which, evidence emerged that the ovens could not cope and bodies were also burned in the ground around the gas chambers.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">No one of us asked a single question. People were silent, absorbing, learning and of course, taking lots of photos. The ride back on the bus was quiet, not silent, but subdued. What got to me most was not the cells, not the gallows or the 'Wall of Death'. It was the tons of hair, thousands of spectacles. If you could not see, too bad, you were a kind of fodder now, not a person. Everything removed, people exploited to the uttermost, their very dust utilised by the Third Reich; deploying feelingless conveyor-belt methods. Treated like animals in the Chicago stockyards. Like animals.<br />
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What did I take away. At 58 is it yet possible to be disappointed and dispirited at the way we deal with one another? Yes.<br />
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No 1 underground gas chamber<br />
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For so very many; the end of the line<br />
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On another trip to the north of where I live; I was to visit a business park on the outskirts of Preston. I changed trains there, but never strayed out of the station. If I have any say in it, I won't end up there again.....even to change trains. There might be the possibility of being stranded there and <em>once</em> bitten, I intend to avoid even the remotest risk of being bitten there again. <br />
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I joke with colleagues that I don't 'do' places that have less than two museums, an opera house and entries in the Good Food Guide. Of course, I go where I am sent, but on no level is Preston a place anyone other than the most thorough of visitors would want to visit and even the intrepid and completest kind of traveller is unlikely to return. The very nicest thing I can think of to describe it is, unlovely.<br />
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I travelled up the day before for an all day meeting with an earlyish start; for sure too early to allow me to get there on time that morning. On my economy drive; I had a look at a map and decided I could walk, with luggage, to the hotel and save charging a taxi fare. Taxis generally make me very twitchy. No matter who is paying, I am constantly eyeing the meter and mentally urging lights to change so as not to rack up the total. The walk allowed me leisurely views of the filthy and dilapidated state of the town centre. Old buildings uncared for and newer ones of the stained concrete variety.<br />
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The hotel I had been put into was a Holiday Inn which delightfully faced the characteristically stained concrete bus station and multi story car park. I asked at the hotel how long a taxi ride was out to the Business Park I was going to the next morning. I was told it was at least 20 minutes. Ouch! I asked whether buses went there. Yes, a 41B, I was told what stop to go to....well, the 41B stop, but it was pointed out to me from the window.<br />
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Ever intent on punctuality I went to the station, confirmed that the route did indeed go to the Park and worked out the timing of the bus I needed. <br />
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So, in good time next morning I was walking towards the bus stop and could see it looked like a bus was about to draw away. It was a 41...not a 41B. But I had been throrough with the timetable the night before and the only bus due to draw away from this stop was the 41B. So, I got on and asked the driver if he was going to the business park....he just grunted, took the money I had in my hand and chunked the ticket and my change out of his machine.<br />
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I sat down and watched the world go by.......for about 25 minutes, then I started to get a bit concerned. I waited until we were at traffic lights, then went forward and asked the driver how far it would be to the Business Park. He just grunted, gave me a dirty look and turned back to watch the lights. <br />
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On the way back to my seat I asked the pensioners around me.....no passenger under about 70 other than me.....none of them had so much as heard of the Business Park. This bus terminated at Tesco supermarket. I complained that the driver had not only taken my fare when I asked if we were headed in my direction, but now refused to speak to me. <br />
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"Oh" said one of the passengers, " He is Polish and doesn't have one word of English."<br />
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I was pretty taken aback at this and although it explained the event, it did not explain to me why Preston would employ someone with NO English to do a job that needed some kind of communication skills beyond grunting. I also wondered at there being no test he would have to pass to read road signs and deal with any emergencies. It did make me wonder about how they recruited doctors for their hospital. I was having darker and darker thoughts about this town and the people in it who surely only remained because they were somehow stuck in the way flies get stuck to flypaper.<br />
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It seemed like a sensible thing to get to Tesco and no doubt there would be some taxis there. It was still a fair ride to the Supermarket, but I had 20 minutes left to the time of the appointment. Luckily I had allowed plenty of time. But my stress level was rising. I don't take it well if there is even a risk I am late for a meeting and in this instance I was going into a situation that needed some delicate handling.<br />
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At Tesco, I got off the bus, it scarpered and I could see there were no taxis. The upshot was I had to phone, apologise and have one sent by the people I was visiting. I was 30 minutes late for the appointment and the fare was almost exactly what I ended up paying to get back to the railway station to get home. My best laid plans had been a failure. I had ended up spending more than had I got a taxi from the hotel, and I arrived not just late, but at a disadvantage in the psychological negotiation stakes. I did not get out of the meeting all that I had intended. Economy is not always the best policy.<br />
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I swore never to darken the towels of Preston again.knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17322808435084419537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068618846447586546.post-42362669433915284302011-09-30T08:54:00.003+01:002011-11-13T20:20:10.681+00:00Travel for work Part 1Surely much more prosaic than foreign travel. Yes and no. I do go to a fair number of places in the UK all employer paid. With the state of finances generally this often prompts me to try and economise in various ways. <br />
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I often get home quite late in the evening because I can't make myself charge up £65 one way from London when I can wait another hour and do the same journey for £19. But I really don't like getting home at 8.45 in the evening. Last week I took that train it was 59 minutes late. At the preceding station it was logged at 61 minutes overdue and the passengers escaping there were told to get hold of compensation claims. But in the 15 minute ride on to my stop, they made up two minutes. So no compensation offers.<br />
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We are supposed to book our hotels through a booking agent; I am never convinced this saves money. Occasionally I visit a town that is not covered by the agent. One such was Wigan.<br />
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Now if you have heard legends of Wigan Pier; that does not actually indicate that it is on the coast. Sometimes I go to Southend on Sea; it is <em>kind</em> of by the sea, well up the estuary but it has a splendid pier and splendid views of an expanse of water. However Wigan is about 40 kms up the mouth of a river, no salty air here. The pier pokes out into that river.<br />
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I was meeting up with two of the team of writers that I work with and we were spending a couple of days together. One, Bev, comes from Wigan and we decided to meet up at her home town. I asked Bev for a recommendation for somewhere to stay. She surprised me by firmly suggesting a Wetherspoons pub with rooms. Wetherrooms.......I caviled. How about somewhere else? No, she knew people who had stayed there happily. <br />
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I was picked up at the station by the second writer, Lynda; she is a tonic to work with and sees the humour in every situation. We arrived at the pub which is on a main road and looking very careworn inside. It gives a very different impression from the current Laterooms entry. We walked through the bar that looked like herds of cattle had been scuffing the carpet with their hooves ever night for a year, I clocked the chipped woodwork.<br />
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But the reception guy was pleasant. As I always do, I asked for a quiet room. Duly noted. Lynda expressed no preferences.<br />
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Getting to my room I noticed a strong smell of damp. Looking out of the window I saw my room faced onto the main road. I gazed out glumly and had to concede it was not burdened with much traffic. A few minutes later I met up with Lynda in the bar. I mentioned my front of house view; this set her off in peals of laughter. She was tucked away right at the back of the building. She suggested that perhaps she would be woken up by the bins being collected and that was why I was not at the back.<br />
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Now we had arrived at an unfortunate time for Bev. Just that day her much loved and house trained, elderly pet rabbit had died. There had been many a rabbit trauma over the couple of years I had known Bev. I can be very stony hearted about pets. But I was sorry about the rabbit, though the upside was that luxury holidays would be possible now that the vet was not taking them out of the mind boggling bills Bev had been paying to keep the animal comfortable.<br />
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But Bev is a trooper and she had determined, bereavement or not, we three would meet up and have a night out. She appeared and asked if we wanted to eat at the pub. NO! I did not want to eat at the pub. I suggested it would be round to her house for rabbit pie......this could have been a tricky moment, but we ended up rocking with laughter as we imagined how to keep a bit of the pet as a memento. My risky approach had broken her mood and we decided to go to an Indian place for a meal.<br />
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We parked right outside, a rare event these days. The place was modern-bland, clean lines, cream walls. We sat down and unusually in an Indian we decided on a bottle of wine. We had the house white delivered. It was screw top and instead of offering anyone a taste, the waiter plonked the plonk into the glasses. We were chatting about how to sort out the work; I tasted the wine. It was vile, tasted of tin and was bitter. I said nothing and wondered what the others thought. <br />
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They were off into a plan for how we design the piece of writing we were considering, but I noticed that Bev was chatting and sipping and not falling over in shock. They breed tough girls in Wigan. Eventually I had another taste. It was every bit as bad as I had remembered. I asked how the wine was....the answers.....bogging, terrible. I called the waiter over. I said that we did not like the wine and would he please take it away and take it off the bill. He looked worried and disappeared.<br />
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We were left to our own devices for some time. In the interim, Bev was still holding the glass, chatting and taking tiny sips from it as though by reflex. Eventually the manager appeared.....he was clearly in no mood to pander to customers. I explained that we thought the wine was not drinkable, it was tinny, tasted awful and would he please take it back and take it off the bill.<br />
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He pointed at the half empty bottle and demanded. "Well if you did not like it, why did you drink so much of it?" I frowned and indicated that the wine from the bottle was sitting undrunk in the glasses. He then raised his voice and told me there was nothing wrong with the wine, could be nothing wrong. It was the house wine and popular. I told him I did not care how many bottles he sold, he was not selling one to me.<br />
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He then grabbed the bottle and then each of our glasses in turn and poured the wine back into the neck of the bottle. He then pointed to the fact that there was <em>some</em> wine missing. I was losing patience by now and just curtly told him that it had better not appear on the bill. <br />
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We then watched in amazement as he ceased the bottle top, screwed it back onto the bottle, stalked over to the bar and put the bottle behind the bar. His parting shot was a loudly muttered, "If you did not want to pay for it; you should not have drunk it."<br />
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It was clear that the wine was going to be sold by the glass with the added ingredient of our sputum and at a higher profit. This set us off in a combination of shock and amusement. We did consider disappearing and leaving him with an ordered meal, but we decided to stay put; we were hungry. I felt reassured that I had kept an eye on the manager to make sure he did not go near the kitchen; as I was not about to risk him adding his sputum or worse to our food. The food arrived and it seemed fine.<br />
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Back at the gracious Wetherspoons, things were in full swing; they sell it cheap and pack 'em in. We had a couple of bevies and Bev's sister arrived to give her a lift home. Somehow it seemed not in the least odd that Bev's sister had turned up dressed for bed, wearing her favourite teddy bear patterned pajamas and furry slippers.<br />
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The evening and an open window had not allowed dispersal of the damp smell from my room. I had earlier noticed there was no hot water....still none. I fell asleep and at what turned out to be 2am I was woken by a loud grinding noise, it certainly made me jump. I lay there exasperated having worked out exactly what it was. The draymen had arrived and were dragging the empty metal beer barrels across the cobbles in front of the pub and dragging full ones in. This lasted about 20 minutes. <br />
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Lynda had had a very peaceful night at the back of the building. She was sympathetic to my having to wash in cold water, but got me laughing yet again about the entire set-up. <br />
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Later when we met up with Bev we told her about the accommodation. "Well", says Bev, "next time you come there is a lovely sort of small mansion house hotel out near me and it is within the cost limit." Stunned I asked her why then she had stuffed us into the crappiest place in town. "Well, it was close to the office."<br />
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I said; "But Bev, we had Lynda's car!"knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17322808435084419537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068618846447586546.post-59313610978027075172011-09-17T23:43:00.034+01:002011-10-01T11:48:53.346+01:00Bremen: In the steps of Napoleon...again!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw3UG9yXhlwBKHN36wU6G0ArKteOtJX9BH0EfzePo5oyvfJ_F3DoslwlTzm2BplMABiGJilRTcT-eJO4loJz1vAmP5B2c3-vJBXC-HVAeAD7-6ml6w86i4JRvE5QrYkqk7tP24Y61AaHw/s1600/DSCF4923.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" rba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw3UG9yXhlwBKHN36wU6G0ArKteOtJX9BH0EfzePo5oyvfJ_F3DoslwlTzm2BplMABiGJilRTcT-eJO4loJz1vAmP5B2c3-vJBXC-HVAeAD7-6ml6w86i4JRvE5QrYkqk7tP24Y61AaHw/s320/DSCF4923.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I am quite decided: sometime soon I am off to Vietnam. I know that Napoleon was never there, never annexed it, never </b></span><b>plundered it. He did not make any of his relatives king, nor fought battles or took lovers there.</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Although I know a fair bit of history, I had not known that the little emperor had at one time attached Bremen to his empire. I often feel I dog his steps, 200 years after he has passed through, left his footprints and grabbed his spoils from everywhere, Venice </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>to Egypt, Naples to, well, Bremen! </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Unusually for anywhere he 'visited', the furniture remains intact. I assume that by this time </b></span><b>Paris was simply stuffed with artifacts and chairs and desks, sideboards and thrones from the various cultural centres of Europe. Even from the Vatican he purloined 100 art works to be dragged back to the Louvre: one reason for his excommunication. Though, making his new born son, Na</b><b>poleon, king of Rome probably did not sit well with either Italian prelates or politicians.</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What we see in Bremen is a well organised, prosperous city with a medieval centre and a great transport system. But not all is as it seems. During the 2nd world war the Allies flattened 40% of the city and 60% of its port. A lot has been restored to seem old, but some significant buildings escaped the raids. One such is the Rathaus, the town hall. Going round this on a guided tour is to join an exercise in the civic pride of heritage and in what the city has become.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>This was one of the Hanseatic ports. A mercantile arrangement around the Baltic that was a distant precursor to the European </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Union. It lasted less than 100 years from the 1350s; but echoes of the arrangement continue even to this day. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Subsequently there was a </b></span><b>tussle between the Roman church and the Protestants, the latter of whom protested in the cathedral in favour of reformation sermons. The Archbishop promptly upped sticks and, locking the cathedral, it fell into disuse and disrepair. It was abandoned for many decades. Today walking into it the signs of reformation exceed mere removal of any signs of idolatry. The axis of the church has been changed, not just bringing the altar forward into the nave; but swiveling it so that where the altar would once have been is now an elevated seating area that looks onto the side of the altar. </b><br />
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</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>This break with Rome was the signal for local politicians to grasp power and set up their own government along ancient republican lines; with two 'mayors' holding their posts simultaneously, like tribunes in Rome. The idea was to prevent the concentration of too much power into one pair of hands.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Further, the Mayoral posts circulated round the entire council. It was a democracy of sorts, male, moneyed, but with distinct </b></span><b>checks and balances that minimised corruption. To be weighed in the Bremen balance and found wanting would shut the doors to you from any and all </b><b>trade right across the Baltic. Despite the occasional rounds of fisticuffs with empires, royalty and invaders, the city retains its unique position with its own parliament. A frowning new slab that sits uncomfortably aside the ancient buildings of what is otherwise a handsome old square, it is the current seat of power. </b><br />
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<b>Kings got short shrift here. The smallest room in the Rathaus, smaller than a toilet, was that which had been set aside for the exclusive use of Austro-Hungarian royalty. The main council chamber holds great hanging ships and its declaration of freedom inscribed round its walls. In the tiny royal annex there was not room for the emperor to twirl a coronet, let alone swing a sceptre. I got the impression he would be left very much to his own devices there while the burghers got on with their business.</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>During the Renaissance the exterior of the Rathaus was given a spectacular face lift echoing the seafaring architecture that has brought so much wealth to the city. It contains a room dating back to the 14th century which was unaccountably redesigned early in the 20th century in the Art Nouveau style with embossed gilt leather walls. This inner </b></span><b>sanctum is kept like a shrine. </b><br />
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<b>We were permitted only to stick a head around the door to gaze and the guide several times referred to it as a "sacred space" and thus suitable for the most important men to make the most important decisions for the city. This guide was full of sincere sentiment, not pompous, but clear in his pride in his German heritage. His enlargement on the subject reminded me very closely of the German Art and German Traditions that Wagner espoused so proudly in 'Die Meistersingers von Nuremburg' and which were adopted and pushed </b><b>as national pillars of secular faith under the Third Reich. The admirable turned into evil. Here I had to rethink this in order to see it as appropriate pride in culture and heritage.</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Ancient heroes, Roland and Charlemagne are both deployed like mascots in some kind of legendary sponsorship of the city. In neither instance could I tie up just what the actual connections were. But there is a splendid statue of Roland in the main square, </span>encompassed<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> in the Unesco heritage site that also embraces the Rathaus.</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The wealth here is to do with successful trading and the locals were wise and adventurous; taking a lead in trading with the New World </b></span><b>trade almost before it was mapped. Something like 70% of all German wine passes through Bremen, some of it reaches the </b><b>extensive cellars beneath the Rathaus, which contains a much loved restaurant with a vast wine list and a blocked up staircase that </b><b>once lead straight to the council chamber in order to provide liquid refreshment. The food is excellent all over the city, heavy on both </b><b>meat and fish, wonderful thick soups and sauces, my kind of eating. I made sure I only drank wine that was German right through </b><b>the visit. I did avoid the many kebab houses, as ubiquitous as McDonalds.</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>There is a very lively arts scene here, including classical concerts seemingly at least a couple of nights a week. I was very fortunate. I caught two. First of all: a Wagner, Strauss and Shostakovitch concert by the visiting Amsterdam Concertgebouw; Andris Nelsons </b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">conducted. Amazing sounds, </span>marvellous<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> music making, but has there ever been a more miserable symphonist than Shostakovitch? I am sure areas of the first two movements are scattered with the instruction, 'aural assault' and the Dutch players went balls-deep </span></b><b>obeying it. At times the sheer volume was uncomfortable, but the committed playing pinned one to the seat.</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Nelsons opened with the Wagner Reinzi Overture; which I find almost comical in its Lloyd Webber overuse of the main theme in </b></span><b>the first half, then it goes all Rossini and ends like a Strauss Polka. Of course, it was played for all it was worth and was a real </b><b>crowd pleaser. What followed was a marvelous 'Dance of the Seven Veils' from Strauss's opera Salome. It could have been more down and dirty, but it worked well, the layers of sound and detail were remarkable. The conductor was simply terrific and it was clear the orchestra totally enjoyed working with him. They watched him, very significant, and were very warm in aplauding him. Ironic that I travel to Bremen to hear him; when he is the principal conductor in Birmingham.....on getting home I made speedy arrangements to hear him locally. I don't remember the last time a musician excited me so much.</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The second concert: (It would have been better had they been the other way round.), was the Bremen Orchestra: Strauss 4 Last </b></span><b>Songs and Bruckner 4th. The local outfit is fine, but it was a big step away from the previous night. The Strauss was soupy with </b><b>the strings too loud, submerging the woodwind and harp. The soprano Kristine Opolais, (wife to Andris Nelsons), was OK, she did </b><b>not do anything wrong, but I did not connect with her singing, the crowd appreciated her enormously.</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I did therefore wonder how the orchestra would manage all the <i>very</i> quiet string work in the first movement of the Bruckner 4th. </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>It managed just fine; which made me wonder why the Strauss had been so clotted. The orchestra could not match the sheer </b></span><b>quality, the bottom heavy sonority and sweet, sweeping strings of the Amsterdammers, but it was good.</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>One big selling point to Bremen is the Kunsthalle gallery. About a month before I landed, the Independent made a big splash about this major art venue. Seemingly, (Note that word 'seemingly'.), it has a first rate collection of Renaissance works. The building has just been been refurbished and extended. It was also to cost 18 Euros to get in. I kept it for the final full day. Blow me, it was free.....but it was also basically empty. Only one Renaissance work, a statue of Venus. She looks like part of a cut price S&M exhibition; confined inside a box and tied up. I am still not sure whether she was waiting to be decanted, or whether she was part of the sparse installation art that provided a bit of summat to look at, and disdain, in a couple of the large suites of echoing, empty rooms.</b></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Despite our usual guide-book research: we had few preconceptions about <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Riga</place></city> and none at all about its people. We were treating it as handy bread around the sandwich filling or our annual visit to <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Finland</place></country-region>. Easy for us to get to; and from there it was quick for us to pop over to <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Finland</place></country-region> and back to the city.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One surprise was that the unit of currency is larger than the Pound. We are not used to that and it imediately instills a little unease. The two year old guide book told me the Pound and the Lat had parity. I had difficulty getting hold of Lats prior to departure so at the airport I bought a few and found that the Pound had sunk to 60% of parity! I knew the airport exchange rate would be poor; but it turned out that the situation was less dire than I feared and in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Latvia itself</place></country-region> the Pound had sunk a <em>mere</em> 20% in two years. Nevertheless, we did not find the cost of living expensive in comparison with Euroland.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One striking element is how friendly and helpful people are: even the taxi drivers! One waitress in a bar we went to several times took pains to provide lots of notes and directions written on torn out pages of her order pad. She was pleasantly determined we should find the best places to eat, how to get to the beach, where to avoid, what to see: and we followed most of her reliable recommendations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It is a very civilised and attractive city with little trace of the former communist shroud and not much of the Stalinist architecture that often disfigures Eastern Block cities. The centre is in two main parts divided by the canal with the park along that waterway and lots of mature trees and fountains amongst which sits its opera house. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One show apartment was preserved as originally designed and open to visitors. It was all beautifully thought through; but for my tastes this kind of interior is much too feminised and delicate looking. The spindly furniture all looked like it was made for formal genteel living. Sit gently on that chair, you may squash it. Even the couches were lightweight pieces where the side cushions would tumble to the floor unless you sat carefully; and sat still. All very well to look round, but suggesting a kind of contained formality even when the family was private and not in its rooms of display. Elegance of surrounding and behaviour, inhibited by suffocating charm. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We did quite a bit of people watching; partly due to my sometimes being hardly able to get about, even when Jane returned from a shopping trip with a carved walking stick. Clearly Friday night is THE night out. We sat on the edge of the nightlife area which embraces three almost interlocking city squares in the medieval area. The girls go about in small groups clearly having decided on the 'look' for the night. They are dressed alike in either near identical dresses, or the same colour codes. They go to quite a bit of trouble and the look is varied between these groups but all carefully coordinated. By contrast the young men have almost a uniform. Calf length shorts and T-shirt. Sloppy and careless in contrast to the women; a striking difference in the way they present themselves. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Giving flowers is obviously a tradition and going to nightclubs many young men carried a bunch of flowers, perhaps making up for their casual appearance. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The shops were a different story, Jane was constantly weighing up in her head the loss of weight we would achieve when we gave over the gifts we had bought for our friends in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Finland</place></country-region> as against how much weight in new clothes could be bought without exceeding the airline weight restrictions. We agreed we would like to revisit the city. It has no must-see world standard tourist attractions; but it is a genuinely pleasant place to relax in for a few days.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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</div>knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17322808435084419537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068618846447586546.post-45216642263789709032011-07-23T18:19:00.039+01:002012-03-20T21:39:33.909+00:00The Mosaics of Ravenna<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ravenna</span></place></city><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> was once a centre of both religious and political power in the civilised world. An outpost of Byzantine East in Roman West. Now it is a day trip for gawping visitors from the likes of <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Bologna</place></city>. Italy is so crammed with treasures from its past, that going somewhere is like throwing dice which have every face covered in sixes.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ravenna</span></place></city><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> is a double six in terms of what there is to see. We started the visit at the first church we encountered after leaving the rail station. No interior decoration, a whitened sepulchre, it had been bombed in the war and rebuilt. A blank canvas waits for some new geniuses to turn up and impress remarkable colour and patterns across its innards. But it will wait in vain. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">It acted like a sorbet for the head, clearing it and in a way preparing us for what was to come. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">As you move from church to church you see how later artists attempted to leave their own thumbprints along side the retained areas of mosaic. In no way is any of it successful. I don’t think even one distinguished painter provided a single fresco in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Ravenna</place></city> that provides any noticeable impact. Perhaps the wisdom of really great artists stopped them from jamming their material up against these remarkable images and in any case they were engaged elsewhere as power and wealth had moved on.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">The detail, colour, and proximity of abstract patterns form a bright, silent fairground. A kaleidoscope of colour, busyness and seeming movement; yet it is illusion: as all is still, and if you are lucky and there are few visitors about, quiet.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"We climbed up.until I finally saw through a round opening the beauteous things which Heaven holds. And there we came out to see, once more, the stars.”</span><br />
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</div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One of the main signatures of the city of Bologna is the remaining collection of towers. These seemed to serve little purpose than to claim the attention and impress. Two of the most famous stand aside one another, both list somewhat and from some angles it looks like the shorter one is in the process of tumbling, like a large detonated chimney stack, against its bigger brother. The larger one can be climbed via its 470 or so steps. I took this task on somewhat reluctantly and rather slowly. The views were of course worth it. Like with most of the places we visited, there were very few people about indeed. So by achieving the tower top you joined the company of the elect, somewhat nearer to God than thee. </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bologna</span></place></city><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> in June ought to have been an opportunity to catch the sun. On this occasion it was as much to do with avoiding the rain. Fortunately there are over 30 kilometres of loggias which protected us as much from that rain as from the occasional strong and welcome sunshine. In medieval times, these loggia were built as night shelters for indigent pilgrims. They had therefore to be constructed so that the width would accommodate the length of a man lying down. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Currently the indigents seem to congregate, along with their ill tempered noisy dogs, at the main entrance to the opera house. Here, loud drunkenness seems to be tolerated, at least during the day and despite the miles of loggia, the only sleeping rough that we saw was a group of eight men who nightly lay under the overhanging eaves of an empty modern shop.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the big draw on Euros is women’s fashion and what is seen in the windows is also evident on the streets. It is a very well healed community; the most well-off per capita in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Italy</place></country-region>. There is a profusion of that Berlusconi-like combination of the distinguished elderly man with a very young woman, fawning on him and obviously wearing quite a quantity of his Euros. Here for a number of young pretty women the knack of falling in love where it is most advantageous has become an art form </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><place w:st="on">As in many southern European</place> cultures the concept of the passargerio<strong> </strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">is enjoyed. People promenade about seemingly aimlessly, but quite often to show off. </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The young and stylish will almost block up some loggias in the evening, simply chatting and laughing in bunches, then moving off in pairs prominade to the next impromptu meeting point. Even if basically blocking the entrance to bars, they are by no means inevitably drinking, just being social. There are secrets to a satisfying life that can be learned through observing the way this city operates.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We had decided in advance that we wanted to get into some late night jazz and the utterly useless guide book suggested just the place. A modish café by the side of a canal. We were assured the glitterati hung out here and the Jazz was super cooool. The look of this supposedly louche spot was curiously like a prim English tea room. We looked in during the becalmed lunch hour, the presence of a baby grand was reassuring; we would give it a late night go. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We turned up around 10.30, exactly at the point when a birthday party was disintegrating in a desultory fashion. The birthday girl looked deeply unhappy; clearly this had not been the hip and joyful gathering intended. The few remaining guests were taking their leave, some sneaking away while the birthday girl was in the loo. The iced cake was only slightly dented, the atmosphere sour. More to the point…..there were no musicians and on the departure of the girl and her two more loyal friends……we were the only remaining patrons. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It was 10.45 pm and as so often; the real party was going on somewhere else, a place we had not been told about. Another night we passed the place late on and there was no one inside and only one table occupied outside. How fickle fashion is: the train arrives, a vibe is created and the train moves off towards a new destination leaving a rather depressed vacuum in its wake. Our unusual attempt to get to where the late nights become early mornings had misfired.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many students turn the grunge look into studied high fashion, but the politically minded join nightly symposia; sitting on the paving in a semicircle around speakers. Some extemporise and others read from notes. The banner this summer reads, ‘Revolution Bologna Democrazia Reale’ This political cell meets in the main square beside the famous <place w:st="on">Neptune</place> fountain and under the eyes, not of the police, but the army, who maintain a casually watchful eye and ear on what is going down. Each evening that we passed, the meeting held between 50 to 70 youngsters; usually with one or two much older men, who I assume had political rather than carnal hopes of their young acolytes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The cathedral is on the main thoroughfare and is inches from the traffic. It is a dank, gloomy place; ignored by the guidebooks and cold shouldered by the tourists. There is nothing there to delay one from exploring the main events which lie elsewhere. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Taking up one entire side of the main piazza is what looks like the Duomo, but is not. San Petronio’s Basilica, named after the patron saint of <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Bologna</place></city> is much more a centre of worship than the cathedral and it contains generations of commissions of art with which the church is adorned. It is pretty vast and can accommodate almost 30,000 worshipers. Despite its size it feels welcoming rather than coldly imposing. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The entrance takes you both to the newest and the oldest parts; up a steep flight of stairs you see Baroque disfigurements and down a few stairs the crypt, reserved for prayer is a chapel with Roman columns surmounted by Frankish capitals. Once this site was a famous temple to <place w:st="on">Isis</place>. As so often the early church would stamp on the earlier institution by acquiring the site and promptly building over to obliterate the pagan places. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Back into the church you might spy a small side door and if you are tempted to explore, you are tipped into darkness and mystery. You are in a roughly circular, high chapel with one small window that allows a Stygian look at the large edifice that takes up most of the interior space. It struck a chord with me, I had seen something like it a long time ago. It suddenly came to me. Here in <country-region w:st="on">Italy</country-region> was an embellished adaptation of the Holy Sepulchre from the church of that name in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jerusalem</place></city>. Low down in the tiny grated opening is the site where the remains of the city’s patron saint rested until in the year 2000 when they were removed to the vast central church named for the saint that I describe above.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While up the tower we spied another stonking church we had not visited. It was of course covered in scaffolding and plastic. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">By coincidence it was the site of a free end of term concert by the music faculty students. A late timed concert that included the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with a young but terrifically virtuosic soloist. As can be supposed the giant bathroom acoustic blurred and covered the orchestral detail; what bassoons one wondered? They were seen but not heard. There was then the Mozart Coronation <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Mass.</place></state> All very enjoyable, but don’t believe all the press about how wonderfully Italians sing consonants; the choir’s words were a vague though pleasant wash of sound. </span></div><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As so often the packed to the rafters audience provided diversion as they moved about during the music; even taking seats with them. This was as much a photo opportunity for proud parents as it was a chance to hear what was being presented and there was a lot of pointing and loud whispering. Directly behind us was a trio of what looked like eight year old girls. One had the habit of kicking the kneeler which reverberated through our pew. Jane and I were getting pretty rattled and dirty looks directed behind us did nothing to attract any responsible adult to do anything. Without interval it was a long sit for the little ones and eventually they made enough distracting noise for a mother to move forward and intervene; which meant tears, loud ones. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I sign off with a rare 'Self portrait with wife.'.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Travel can be towards something or perhaps away from things. It may be an exploration<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or an avoidance of self. Too much can be fundamentally exhausting, superficial and expose the collector that lurks in many of us. “Oh, yes, been there, but have <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i> been to…..?” What do we take away? How are we changed? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog I mention visiting <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Rome</place></city>, the photos are devoid of people. I joke about it, but when looking across my photographs, there are precious few that let you see the locals. They are only permitted access if particularly picturesque; when they become props to a still life composition. I wonder whether this tendency is about aesthetics or is something altogether else?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Perhaps: a wish to seemingly experience the place alone? I have claimed that it is due to my relative lack of success photographing people; but there may be a less obvious desire to be a lone explorer of already well explored places. Each eye will see the city a different way and each collection of photographs suggests a city that no one else has quite seen. This from the specific standpoint of the photograph together with the weather, the way the composition has been cropped and in conjunction with the photographs around it. These express a unique vision of somewhere. But on several levels it is partial.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Surely a city is as much about the people and their lives there as it is about architecture and nature. To understand a culture, we have to be involved with the people. A friend of mine looked through some of my photographs and remarked, ‘Another of your journeys with no people in it, just more fucking architecture.’ Pithy and pointedly true.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Yet outside of the souvenir vision within the camera; I interact quite freely and do enjoy going to places the that locals inhabit and that visitors do not generally get to. I have had a number of encounters with local people, almost always positive, sometimes lasting friendships have grown. But in the photographs there is precious little evidence of it all. Are my photos really paintings by another medium? Very specifically, my suspicion of how the Internet can be abused has lead me to </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">anonymize entries and to preserve the privacy of friends and relatives, the people that I know have been absented.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Leaving that self imposed limitation aside, nevertheless, I know I often do without a shot if it has people intruding into it. In that way, they interrupt my pure vision, get in the way. Equally, cars, dustbins, trailing electrical wires etc are excluded unless they are the point of the photograph. I seem to carry my own idealized vision and attempt to impose it on a place, so it is a false representation. One would recognise the buildings in the city, but the real textures of the city have been thinned out to serve an arbitrary view of its essential nature. I have not managed to remove ‘self’ from the equation. Each bunch of photos tells me about me, at least incidentally. But I am not going to sweat it. Everyone’s vision is partial. Mine perhaps just more so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">On occasion I go out of a hotel and deliberately leave the camera behind. There is the danger that a visit is experienced mainly <em>through</em> the camera, rather than in reality. Everything is constantly being lined up for a two dimensional shot, rather than lived in three dimensions. It is healthy to sometimes just 'be' there; rather than to artistically record images of life. Life is for the living and travel is for the experience and enrichment, not merely the aesthetic. I tell myself this as I write it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A blog grandly called, ‘The Mirror and the Lamp’ promises to reflect and illuminate. But just what is it reflecting and illuminating?</span><br />
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Many years ago a work colleague, Jim, had gone to Turkey to look at and photograph steam trains. At that time Turkey had acted like an engine magnet. From across the world obsolete engines had been gathered in order to keep its out of date infrastructure rolling. My colleague was very much a train spotter. He was unable to articulate anything about what he had seen. He was dealt with benignly as a bit of a joke and some bright spark suggested, then pressed him, to bring along his photos.<br />
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They were revelatory. I don't think I have ever seen a more exciting collection of photographs. Rather as medieval painters would cram the whole world of landscape and milling life into a religious portrait, here Jim had given us a fantastic, detailed depiction of Turkey. This was at a time when you had to compose the photographs as you took them and could not improve the composition on Photoshop. His compositions were striking and the images pin sharp. It made me want to visit the country. <br />
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All the photos had trains in them, but he was a canny observer of the life going on around the engines and his landscapes made the mouth water. He also showed it as it was then, the clothes, cars, the trains themselves, all vanished. I had never imagined the busy tasks of loading and unloading people and produce, bikes and animals would be so fascinating. The platforms teemed with event.. It often felt like watching the Exodus scenes from De Mille's '10 Commandments'. He had taken in a massive amount about the lives of the people, but simply could not articulate it other than through a lens. <br />
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We then all saw him quite differently; diffident rather than dull. He had vision and released it in grand MGM style in his stills. </div>knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17322808435084419537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068618846447586546.post-52868006567595295962011-05-29T20:49:00.012+01:002011-05-30T10:02:47.545+01:00London Images<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglaqvFvz2WNAlPqlIKdAwGAhjSd4avGqBeibCi1MV_HZgni59cqZKphXaGOWxTXm7w8Mg-ep0xu5Z0ZhF6ZamNfvBz6WR-JeFC3dvmKH_W1i3nn0LFuBl2r_IIRPwGoVjZXaQ3BC4G-3k/s1600/the+sq+8.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglaqvFvz2WNAlPqlIKdAwGAhjSd4avGqBeibCi1MV_HZgni59cqZKphXaGOWxTXm7w8Mg-ep0xu5Z0ZhF6ZamNfvBz6WR-JeFC3dvmKH_W1i3nn0LFuBl2r_IIRPwGoVjZXaQ3BC4G-3k/s320/the+sq+8.JPG" t8="true" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leading up to Easter I was supposed to be in Syria with a friend, (GN). This was a planned return after a visit with my wife last October. GN and I were both intent on visiting the desert monasteries. I had found something special there and wanted to spend significant time in that atmosphere.<br />
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However, things were deteriorating in Syria during the lead-up to Holy Week. We therefore decided on Rome rather than Damascus and have banked the flights for when the country settles down.<br />
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It turned out to be a full week of full-on monument crawling and church gathering. The friend I went with has a degree in archaeology specialising in the Roman period. He is also a practising Catholic. So, when Syria fell through this seemed to be an obvious choice. I had no idea just how closely what was available in the city fitted his interests and priorities. No replacement destination would have been as satisfactory.<br />
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Of course, though it was a holiday, GN's academic discipline came to the fore and he was studying as against my mere visiting. This meant I had to slow my pace considerably and we would spend significant time staring at the bases of bridges over the Tiber to see where the Roman footings petered out and the Renaissance additions kicked in. Also; distinguishing amongst the various Roman construction methods to see whether sections of a site were pre-empire, early empire or late empire. We also spent a fair bit of time trying to track down the outlet of the Gloca Maxima.....the major sewer of the ancient city. Rome was not just glory seeking gladiators and marble columns.<br />
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In the Forum there is indeed a now obscure spot from which all roads to anywhere in the Empire were measured. In those heady days all roads did indeed lead to Rome. Roads from Syria through Rome and to Newcastle in England.<br />
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I learned a lot, but will forget it very shortly no doubt; the way my brain malfunctions unfortunately. The days were long and we viewed remaining walls, walked through the remaining gates and I viewed a high proportion of the extant standing column in central Rome, including a host that were incorporated in situ into subsequent buildings. Of course we did not have to stick together all the time; but it was clear GN liked having my bumbling Watson along to hear his Holmesean speculations and I gained significantly from those ruminations, though I destroyed my shoes in the process. As in Damascus the bedroom wastebin received a parting gift of disgarded, worn out footwear. <br />
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Then there was the collection of churches; of which Rome has an enormous number, most of them with obscure secret-code opening hours. We visited a lot on my recommendation and many more that I have never seen. GN had an in depth guide to the monuments and churches, so again I learned much more than from the superficial kind of guides I usually take. Mine are 50% pictures, his had only a few line drawings by way of illustrations. I have been inspired to the extent that I have ordered the Blue Guide to Emilio Romano for my impending visit to Bologna. But I also ordered one of my highly illustrated guides. So many times I have been inspired by a photograph to discover somewhere I would otherwise have missed.<br />
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We sought out the real site of the assassination of Julius Caesar; which was not where I had assumed. It was not in the Senate House which is in the Forum, despite which the position of the deed can still be found. At the time of the assassination the senate was meeting elsewhere. Although the building itself has all but disappeared, four newer temples were built in a line and most of three of them sit in a city square, cordoned off, but with the site of Caesar's death easy to pinpoint using a reliable guide book. It is surprising that it is not a site that is more prominently highlighted. Now, it is a safe haven for stray cats who have a sanctuary here and are clearly well fed and happy to sun themselves amongst the ruins.<br />
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There were a lot of laughs and good food, GN had abjured alcohol for Lent and to an extent I joined the drought. He dashed off to Mass on a regular basis and saw the Pope on Psalm Sunday from St Peter's Square. I vicariously enjoyed the observances which incidentally provided to us each some time apart. Always a good idea to have time away from each other with any travel companion. I think it helps to ensure there are no arguments, indeed there were none. We both look forward to Syria, though I am resisting the idea of a long detour to an isolated and rather puny looking intact Roman bridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One building I viewed alone was the Lateran Palace which is attached to St John Lateran, the cathedral of Rome. It had formerly acted as the home of early popes. When the centre of the Roman church moved to the enlarged Vatican at St Peter's, this palace was redesigned in contemporary style. A great shame, as the much more ancient palace was obliterated in the process. However, it was nevertheless impressive and I found myself rattling round this deserted palace in sole possession of a guide along with one American tourist. Possibly the most interesting snippet was that Mussolini signed the Lateran Pact here which provided the Papacy with status of an independent state within Italy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another theme of the week was exploring below churches the earlier evidence of Roman or even pre-Roman temples or places of worship. I knew of a couple and took us to them, but the Blue Guide took us to yet more. Right now Rome is excavating a third subway route to add to the two intersecting lines that exist. No doubt the work will be delayed as yet more ancient remains come to light. Dig down anywhere in central Rome and you are bound to hit evidence of ancestors and as with all the ancient and still lived in cities, the entire level of the streets is many feet higher than those trod by the ancients. It nevertheless always surprises me, from Edinburgh to Alexandria, people build on top of old buildings, seal them off and forget all about them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We caught a small scale German rendition of St John Passion, wonderfully performed, but in the St John Lateran basilica. It is I think the third largest church in Rome and the height has to be 120 feet or more. We sat very close in and the performance was swift, but flexible. The soloists ranged from good: Evangelist, to the Bass aria soloist who was particularly fine. I imagine though that from 300 feet away, it must have entirely lost definition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Italian audience behaviour was interesting, lots of moving from place to place and quiet, muttered exchanges. One young guy kept up a dialogue with his girlfriend. I put up with it for a while then turned, pointed at him to get attention and said, 'Basta!'. That means 'enough,' but is a much better word as you can put a lot of expression into it. They moved off and it silenced the couple who were immediately behind me and had also been muttering occasionally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two days running I had on a black shirt and trousers with black shoes and cardigan. In the first church of the day I was twice addressed as 'padre' and many priests made eye contact and nodded or smiled. GN thought it totally hilarious. I wished I had brought more black shirts with me, nice to belong to an instant fraternity. I promised not to try to officiate in confession.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We ate well and inexpensively, though the bug bear is coffee. Although regarding themselves as world leaders in coffee, for our taste it was never really hot, nor was there enough in the very modest size cups provided. As in many cities in Mediterranean Europe, stand at the bar and a coffee is almost free. But the tired tourist pays in pints of blood, or the throbbing credit card equivalent, for the need of rest in a chair instead of throwing it back standing at the counter. Sit down outside and you phone your bank to prepare an overdraft. <br />
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The city felt safe, though we did encounter a demonstration and I have photos of police with riot shields blocking roads. However it was a very peaceful demo; ironic in view of the Foreign Office advice to avoid demonstrations in Syria. While we were away, there was increased violence in Syria and the FO changed its advice to restrict to only vital travel to the country. They sent me an E mail telling me to go to the airport to utilise commercial airlines to leave the country. I had registered with the embassy there which was thorough in gathering information of UK nationals, even to my blood group. I had informed them of my change of plans, but once on their list, I was clearly staying on it.</span><br />
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<div></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The apartment was ghastly; a dungeon of a place which we had to climb about 80 steps to find. Nevertheless, despite being half way up a steep hill it existed in almost total darkness, defended by very heavy metal shutters and in belt and braces mode, strong metal bars. The only place to plug in the kettle meant putting it onto the floor and I had red ants utilising my headboard as a highway. Our twilight existence there and the grubby condition of the place meant we left it early and returned reluctant and late. By contrast the second part of the stay in a B&B was simply great, Paradise Regained with the only drawback being two bathrooms between four rooms. But that worked out OK and it was only 55 Euros a night. We had a room each, but if I go back with my wife it becomes absurdly cheap.</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Almost my entire set of photographs makes Rome look like a depopulated ruined city with a lot of churches. I have more representative photos from earlier visits, just as well, as no one would guess at what it really looks like; note to self.......must do better next time.</span><br />
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</div><div></div><div><strong>This was at a stormy time in the church affairs of the Cathedral. Various of its clergy had entered into bitter internecine warfare with one another. They indulged in religious politics with a small 'p' and it was reported in the national newspapers with lipsmacking relish. The reputation of the CofE was once again being damaged.</strong></div><div></div><div><strong>We padded into the darkened church and sat in one part of the choir stalls while the choir sang across the aisle to one another. This is a service of which nothing obvious is required of the visitor. You passively allow the ceremonial to pass before your eyes and to enter your ears.</strong><br />
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</div><div></div><div><strong>The Presentor, dressed in his black robe and holding a staff, walked slowly backwards before the Cannon as he approached the lectern to give the reading of the day. They acknowledged one another with a bow of the head and the bedecked Cannon climbed two steps to the brass eagle lectern, its wings spread out to support the huge Bible. That eagle is the symbol of the Evangelist St John. The day's reading was a long, long way from John's message of hope. </strong><br />
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<strong>In severe contrast we listened to a reading from Leviticus, to the story of Moses slaughtering rams, making burnt offering and gathering up the blood to use it as follows: The First ram had its Blood poured out around about and Upon the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1300697003_0">Altar</span>. The 2nd Ram had the Blood applied to <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1300697003_1">Aaron’s</span> right ear, thumb, toe. Then blood was applied to Aaron' sons as well. A messy business and brutal.</strong><br />
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<strong>The Cannon rolled on in his pinched Received Pronunciation and rather prissy delivery, I did wonder how, step by step, we have evolved from that atavistic rather brutal faith where priests would be up to their elbows in warm blood, to the now vitiated, staid ceremonial of embroidered vestments and incense that we were observing. </strong><br />
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<strong>Mind you, there was plenty of emotional bloodletting going on behind the scenes where reputations were being slaughtered instead of animals. Possibly not much more civilised after all.</strong></div><div></div><div><strong>But here, in this vast, famous, ancient church they could only summon up about 15 or so celebrants, half of whom were basically tourists. No doubt there would be queueing if the blood was to flow publically. </strong><strong>For me, the service was aesthetically attractive, but spiritually suffocated and dead.</strong> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Helsinki in the summer feels almost like Barcelona. Running away from the waterfront is a delightful narrow strip park. Within it the Finns disport themselves in the sunshine. Opposite a beautiful antique coffee house a band stand plays host to all manner of music making and further along the park you can hear music students plying their potential trade. As Vivaldi is to Venice; so Sibelius is to Finland and here I have twice come across a violinist playing the Sibelius violin concerto; ambition and talent combining in each instance. The atmosphere is quite like La Rambla, but with only marginal chances of being pick pocketed. <br />
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Finland has a long established culture but is in a sense a young country. It has no royal family and evinces total fascination in the doings of the royalty of its erstwhile invaders Sweden. The royal wedding there last year provoked wall to wall media coverage and endless TV repeats of the wedding all over Finland. <br />
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Part of its deliberately 'created' identity, which dates back to the start of the 19th century, is its architecture. Here is a kind of spin on Art Deco with Folk edges. Although an invented style, it has produced pleasing and engaging architecture with a human face, often literally. Although not part of Scandinavia, Finland is Nordic, it has a love of nature and its most famous mythic literature, the Kullervo, parallels the Viking sagas of the further Western countries feeding strongly through into this created architectural style.<br />
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My wife and I have spent several holidays here and on one occasion went into a corner shop and got chatting to the black Frenchman who was running it. He expressed that the Finns were totally different in Winter from the friendly, jolly people we see in the Summer. Introverted, depressed, inclined to being spiky and guarded. He felt the whole country was schoitzoid. <br />
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This past winter of 2010/11 has been an exceptionally cold and harsh one. Snow lying literally for months. A throwback to the time when the old folk were young. In the Winter, one resort for some is alcohol. There is an acknowledged problem in Finland with drink; the hard stuff is reserved for sale through the Government controlled Alko stores, usually an adjunct to the supermarkets. The price of drink is kept high. But for those in Helsinki, cheap drink is a cheap boat ride away. On the way over to Tallinn you are surrounded by duty-free and in that city the drink is sufficiently cheap to attract both Swedes and Finns who make the trip to stock up in a major way.<br />
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In the heat, it was fun to visit a Vodka Ice Bar. Enveloped in boots, robe with hood and mits, we enjoyed the novelty of sitting in ice chairs and drinking from glasses made of ice. It was refreshing, but the place was empty apart from visitors. No doubt the locals get more than their fill of sub zero when the visitors have, like the birds, flown away and the harbour ices over.<br />
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The first time I visited Helsinki I was being shown round by my Finnish friend. We were on a tram and suddenly he hauled me off it and frog marched me uphill into a square. He told me nothing but indicated that I was to go ahead into a big concrete bunker. I was a bit irritated, what was this about? We had been heading to the sea front for a walk around.<br />
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I went in and I don't think I have ever had more of a surprise. I was in a vast underground church, the Temppeliaukio (Rock) Church is built into a rock mound, the inside walls are mostly the exposed rock. The roof looks like a giant wok set into the building by long narrow pains of glass. It is stunning, I was silenced and filled with the emotion of stumbling, unprepared into one of the great buildings of the world. <br />
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By comparison, the cluttered interior decoration of the city's outpost Russian Orthodox church looks second rate. But the Temppeliaukio is a wonderful space, full of light and warmed by the purple chairs and use of bronzed metallic panels. It has an atmosphere both welcoming and deeply serious. I was very recently in the Protestant Cathedral in Belfast, started around the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries. It was austere and cold in both temperature and in its complete absence of a spiritual presence; a vacuum, a husk of a building. This Helsinki building has a diametrically opposite atmosphere.<br />
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The light really is somehow clearer and cleaner there. Sibelius captures the atmosphere of the country, the light and its landscape. A country that managed to give Communist Russia a bloody nose; for which they eventually paid by losing Karelia. It is still a grief to the older people who were brutally thrust out of their ancestral homeland. Sixty years later and they are not over it. <br />
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The people have a great affinity with their land, more so than most other peoples I have observed. So the exile is a physical and spritual loss to them. Many enjoy a heritage of folk songs, most of which are about nature, the land, the earth, the animals. Most are very poignant. An emotional and sometimes austere people. I was told they are hard to make friends with, but when you become a friend, it is to be taken into the family. I can attest to that latter and value those friendships enormously.<br />
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</div><div align="center"></div>knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17322808435084419537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068618846447586546.post-29795800923758600252011-03-05T16:36:00.003+00:002011-03-05T23:07:19.167+00:009/11I wrote this piece about a week after the attack. <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Life is linear, or rather; perhaps it flows like a turbulent river where sometimes we get caught in whirlpools, swirling powerlessly round until somehow we are ejected to continue the journey. Watching television reports this week of the destruction of the World Trade Centre was to endlessly replay the moments of impact from a growing number of vantage points. Collapse, stately and seeming silent, grief in all its guises. Even when no longer in front of the screen that silent film of destruction replayed itself across the mind's retina. A dark whirlpool.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I was to return in imagination over and over, stepping into the experiences of the survivors who provided such devastating soundbites. Phone calls broadcast from a plane hurtling towards the ground, forced to miss a cruelly chosen target. Death for them was as complete as if the target had been reached, but sacrifice in extremis pulled their best from them in their worst moment.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Those potent mobile calls, last declarations of love to mother, wife, son. Here preserved, a parting word that will become a kind of torture for the future. The voice preserved, the people disintegrated. Ten years away what does the new wife do about that particular ghost in the machine? Even erased from the tape the messages will grind themselves into the psyche. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The whole city, that whole country has been caught up in the whirlpools; well we all are even from afar. When will we be released? To an extent that ‘linear’ idea holds: travelling along through disbelief to shock, anger, from hope to despair. I sat in horror as the second tower collapsed in front of my eyes. It seemed to leave almost nothing behind it. Deceptively 100 floors somehow evaporated; a three story pile of dust with some metal sticking out. Quite quickly it got so much worse, scores of rescue vehicles had disappeared under rubble that signalled to us extra victims; the men who had arrived in them were buried and would not return to the fire, the police or ambulance stations. Details emerged that one of the hijacked planes had been the carrier and flight time and route we three had taken just a month ago: <city w:st="on">Boston</city> to <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">San Francisco</place></city>, United Airlines. Was the feeling evoked empathy, or that vicarious desire for a connection? Whatever, it made me shake.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Down this black turbulent river flows a nation guided in their emotions by New York’s Mayor Guliani, connecting unerringly with his people, gentling them into a realisation of the scale of their loss, explaining as tactfully as anyone could the need for so many body bags; each part of a body, each limb would need its own bag. The President belatedly accessed emotions publicly and drew his people in. <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Clinton</place></city> would have done it so much better, but he surely has to be relieved that he is now a bystander. Bush, schooled in at least some political skills, the awfulness whispered into his ear while he is sitting in front of class of kids in a school; the only immediate give-away his eyes widening. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">There is such despair on the part of the waiting hospital staff. After 24 hours there was no one alive to find, to treat, no one being rescued. Even bodies seem to have been spirited away from the site. Somehow the Pentagon pictures had comparatively little impact. It looked like a substantial house where a large tree had collapsed onto it. But four days later, the most sophisticated and well equipped country in the world couldn’t find a way to subdue the fires. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">That no doubt brutally peeled another layer of security off the Americans. For a space the churches are full again. Why do we push God into allowing these things, again providing a thirst for intimacy with him? Was He with all those people who struggled down endless flights of stairs never reaching the bottom? Some people thanked God they were late for work that day and were spared. Could he not have made a whole lot more people late? How about sparing <em>the whole lot</em>? </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">How many thousand dead is still in doubt. That word ’doubt’. To raise it in a context of faith is to suggest that so may loved people may have been consigned to oblivion. Instead we hope there is a finer place in which they are somehow safe. A tepid hope raised amongst the ruins of so many lives.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Patriotism has taken a hold in the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">US</place></country-region>. I believe a war is in preparation. But against exactly who? Someone will be made to pay. Will it be the Afghans, who seem already to have bombed themselves back to a stone-age? Terrorists can hide successfully in mountains from any possible deployed army. The <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">US</place></country-region> is not trained in guerrilla warfare. From Alexander through to the Russian Iron Empire; no one has subdued these people for any significant period of time. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">But some city will have to be reduced to dust, the American psyche needs it. That thirst for closure will open new avenues of hatred against the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">US</place></country-region>, storing up a malignant harvest against a future generation of Americans. There must be at least a corner of almost everyone in the West that wants to see retribution. People are lining up at Army recruitment offices, blood will have blood. Commentators in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Russia</place></country-region> have suggested that a new Holy War between Christianity and Islam is in preparation. Some Arab journalists claim it all revolves around <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Israel</country-region></place>; yet again that small plot of land changes our lives, yet again for the worse.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Stars and Stripes by the hundred thousand have been snapped up and unfurled and hung up and hung out. This business of flags had puzzled me on our recent trip to the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">US</place></country-region>. In <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Rhode Island</place></state> many of the houses sported large flags and often they were atop flagpoles thrust into front lawns. I asked American friends why the flag held such totemic significance. In reply I was told the following story. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">My friend was driving past a fast food outlet, he could see that the flag outside it was slowly sliding down the pole. He stopped the car and just managed to rescue it before it was desecrated by touching the ground. He then folded it in the prescribed manner, took it into the shop and tore the manager off a strip in his outrage at the laziness and laxity of the staff. That highly charged totem was part of his identity as an American. We talked long about the differences between their outright patriotism and my cynicism, possibly a European trait. The purity of their fervour was enviable. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The concept of the ‘special relationship’ was strong on their side. It seems clear that no matter what harebrained scheme their harebrained president will come up with; faithful old <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Britain</place></country-region> will be there like an affectionate poodle. We laughed ruefully about what scrapes Bush Junior would get us into. Well we are not laughing now. Only one month later here we are floating together down this blackest of black rivers into rapids, probably a long and painfully jagged concourse of them.</span></span><br />
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</div>knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17322808435084419537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068618846447586546.post-42161267583434848522011-02-27T22:42:00.004+00:002011-06-06T09:59:58.920+01:00Occasional: Live Music Blog<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><u>Verdi Requiem: Tewkesbury Abbey 4th June 2011</u></strong></span></span><br />
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<strong><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bristol Concert Orchestra: Nigel Perrin</span></u></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Four local choirs had joined together under energetic organisers to put on this piece, which no choir on its own would have had the resources to finance or perform. This is part of a wider push to open choral singing to all comers under the umbrella name of The South Cotswold Choral Group. Two of the choirs have run an A,B,C course to introduce singers with no experience. It is an excellent idea. At one point looking round the men I realised there was almost no one under the age of 50. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I joined a choir at 18 and although at that point I was the youngest bass in what was then the Scottish National Orchestra Chorus; there were plenty of singers in their 20s and 30s, providing a very lively social background to the singing. The demographic of this quite large Cotswold group took me aback. If it holds good, then these choirs are not going to be viable in 15 years time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The inclusiveness has its drawbacks and there are clear trade offs between working with the abilities of singers who happen to wander through the doors and achieving a uniformly satisfying standard. Some singers were very much on the ball, whilst in front of me a small but stolid section of bases sang the Alto line in a section of the Libera me, not once, but each time we went through it. There are always many more women than men in this kind of set-up as the philosophy is to work with your people rather than trim people out to achieve a balance. But, there is a palpable sense of achievement when the singers rise to the occasion and provide much more than a respectable run through.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The choir masters are excellent musicians, patient and persistent and inspiring. On this occasion the conductor was Nigel Perrin. He is a famous vocal trainer and the very short run of rehearsals included a workshop day where he could size up what he had on his hands and get us into his way of thinking. Masses of laughing as well as the expected hard work. He has remarkable gifts in extracting good results in double quick time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It is one thing to achieve detail and unity in a dry acoustic with only a piano to overcome and to support. Once we stand in the very reverberant acoustic of the abbey confronted by a full orchestra, the detail becomes very difficult to preserve. In this instance, the orchestra was basically too loud a lot of the time. This is a common issue. Players need to make it safe, part of that is often to play mezzo forte when piano is marked. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">One trumpet can blot out an entire choir. Here with one orchestral rehearsal involving the choir, the singers clearly felt that they would not penetrate the orchestral textures. So, likewise, we increased volume and the conductor had to fight this joint tendency. It of course had its knock-on effect to the soloists who were having to ride a substantial wave of sound.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There is also always a time lag, mental and technical rather than caused by physics. The bases, at the rear of the block of performers do get behind the beat. They need to be constantly goaded to both watch and to stick with the point of the beat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So, how did it all play out?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the midst, it was impossible to tell what was getting through and what was not. Sometimes, as was once pointed out to me, the grunts in the trenches can't tell how the battle is going. There will be a private recording of the performance circulated and it will be interesting to see if my impressions are backed up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have sung this probably half a dozen times or so; Gibson, Abbado, Willcocks etc. But no one ever put the effort into expressing the words as Nigel Perrin. I think a lot of the quiet beseeching would have been highly effective. When I got home I listened to the opening by Barbirolli.....muttering and mumbling, the Libera me of Solti, the choir's words are not distinguishable in the ppp passages. In my own score I had masses of consonants scored out and had written in the likes of....NO WORDS....over specific passages. Imprecations from earlier performances that I had to rub out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The choir provided solid sound and a good blend. Some complex passages were very successful, though I think the Libera me was rather tentative in places. Perrin took it steadily, though had a tendency to keep changing from two in the bar to four in the bar with no seeming reason. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There was genuine excitement and overwhelming sound when the choir and orchestra was going full tilt. The quiet passages where the orchestra were involved were never sufficiently hushed. But there was some beautiful woodwind playing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I will omit the names of the Bass soloist who proved himself less than reliable and the soprano who was a substitute and who seemed to be substantially sight reading. She tended to adopt the soprano choral line and several times left us stranded without a vital cue. We picked up on that at the rehearsal, so we resorted to counting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But there<em> were</em> two world beaters; the tenor Philip Holtam had it all, sweetness, strength, ringing top notes and breath control to take long lines in a single arc and there was a fantastic Mezzo, Kate Woolveridge, a true Amneris voice with a burnished chest register and massive top notes. She could fine her voice down to a whisper and she had the drama of the piece in her projection of the words.<strong> </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There are provisional plans to produce another such joint performance in two years time. I am rooting for the Berlioz Grande Messe, but it will need a larger venue. With even more performers the substantial Abbey will cramp the audience even more so than it did for the Verdi. Perhaps Gloucester Cathedral will be available. Though with a seven second echo, keeping it all together will be even more of a challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong> <u>RIchard Strauss: Salome, live MET NY Broadcast Oct 08</u></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been, I saw, I was not conquered. It was...so so. Though I still enjoyed the experience and will go to more relays.<br />
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It is not remotely like going to the opera, despite which some in the cinema audience applauded; which made me think they were only allowed out for the day. Here the sound is in your lap, the visuals are down the larynx. I have no idea what the balance would have been in the theatre, but as broadcast it was up close at all times. Even when Kim Begley sang from the back of the stage, he was right in my ear. So the sound perspectives were completely flattened. This robs the feeling of space and the excitement of watching someone pit their voice against the wall of sound Strauss often devises.<br />
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The orchestra sounded generally loud, even during passages that are delicate. The pacing was not altogether to my taste. I felt the score came across as episodic, especially in the dance itself. Moreover, it wound down in the last 20 minutes, which were often just too slow. Nor was the conductor able to pull off that miracle at the end, once Salome has had her way with the head, the soundworld goes cold, when the moon silvers the score. <br />
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I was content with most of the production. A 1960s James Bond baddie's palace on the edge of a stylised desert with an incongruous miner's cage topped with scaffolding....of which more anon.<br />
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There seemed to be some marginal reference to modern conflicts, as Islamic black dressed angles gathered in numbers and stood stock still surveying the disintegration of the Court. Herodias was played as a lush declining into alcoholic disinterest. There were really no dynamics between Herod and Salome, they occupied a shared space, but we were told nothing beyond, him wanting her to dance, she manipulating him to get her way. I saw no subtext to this production, no exposure of the psychology of the characters. Salome was played as a spoilt bored teenager with morbid tastes and a good deal of determination.<br />
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The singing was first rate all round, the acting was another story.<br />
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Mattila is famous for this part, she was accorded a standing ovation. She sings up a storm and has all the notes. Just before Jochanaan is executed, she forced her voice and suddenly it was occluded; but her tone cleared for the final scene, which she played and sang to the hilt.<br />
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Here, I assume distance lent enchantment. The constant right up the nose camera angles exposed her mid forties age mercilessly and her coyness and teenage temper tantrums were almost as grisly as her dancing. She may be supple, but she is far from being an elegant mover and I felt inclined to watch her dance through my fingers. Squirmingly embarrassing, the woman galumphs. There was a woeful attempt at pole-dancing using the scaffolding. The clothes she was put into formed good grounds for suing the management, she could hardly have been less advantageously dressed. If her face was to convey ecstasy, then up close, it looked like a painful kind of eroticism.<br />
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All the bit-part women were like social X-Rays, which pointed up her spare pounds, absurd really, as she is not fat, just not slim. Up close her mother looked like her sister and frankly a good deal more appetising.<br />
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Kim Begley as the Tertrach sang well, no shouting, but as an actor, he was channelling a slightly testy Father Christmas. He was not in the least neurotic or lascivious, there was nothing decadent about his manner. When asked for the Head of the Baptist, he pursed his lips....a disconcerting administrative problem had come his way. Also, he bounces on the balls of his feet when singing....a jaunty Tertrach then.<br />
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The Jochanaan of Juha Uusitalo was a massive presence with a wonderful full, dark voice only slightly weak right at the bottom. There were titters around me when prone, taking up a fair acreage of the stage and looking like he had bee</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">n rolled in mud, Salome sings of his wasted body like an ivory pillar, but then finding such a singer would be like discovering hen's teeth.<br />
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I am sure this will read just like a long list of carps. But I was swept up in it all, there were genuinely thrilling moments and I think a lot of what I disliked revolved around the closeup style of the camera work.<br />
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One final carp....we were treated to some backstage moments where Deborah Voigt knocks on Mattila's door and tries to draw her out and get some comments from her; I hope that scene reaches YouTube, what a hoot; as was the subsequent camera tracking, preceding Matilla, a member of the management and her very own dead ringer for Ugly Betty all the way through the backstage and onto the set. What was all that about? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><u>Berlioz: Damnation of Faust, live MET NY Broadcast Nov 08</u></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a funny sort of day, the chaotic timing of things meant that I ended up sitting waiting for the start of Faust while gobbing a hot-dog. The oddness continued when the cinema broadcast started without sound; clearly someone somewhere tried frantically to sort things out. This involved a couple of quick glimpses of a black gospal choir in full flood. However, right as Levine entered the pit, the sound came through.<br />
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It is not the fault of Berlioz that people decide to stage music he designed for the concert hall. He wrote 'scenes' from Faust; these parachute you into moments along the way; most of the story lies in between these scenes. So, how <em>do</em> you stage Faust and Mephistopheles flying over the planes of Hungary, as the famous march is played? I doubt if the solution is to have soldiers march backwards slowly across the set. This I felt was the one jarring note in an imaginative, highly theatrical evening. One that solved many of the problems of translating the concert to the opera house. One where it was clear the cinema audience became increasingly absorbed as the opera unfolded in front of us.<br />
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The set consisted of a four level walkway, gauze in front, perspex back walls to it. Then the surfaces were used to project behind and in front with the singers being the filling in the sandwich. Back to front the acting area would only have been about 15 feet, but the full width and height of the proscenium was busily used. Apart from those multilevel backward marching soldiers, the stage was filled with fantastic images. The set could be at once transformed from a church with kaleidoscopic stained glass windows, with living Christs on crosses, to a storm tossed woodland where, as Mephistopheles walked across the set, the branches above him writhed and shed their leaves leaving starkness and ruin. <br />
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The skills of members of the Cirque Du Soleil were deployed to provide soldiers who marched up the wall of the set at 90 degrees to it, then fell pieta like into the arms of their womenfolk below, to resurrect and go off to war again, then die again. It was an arresting imaging to go with the music. The same men ran up and down all over the surface of the set, dressed as devils to seduce the female Sylph dancers. <br />
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But what of the music? Levine paced it well, no gear changes, no odd speeds and he aided and abetted Berlioz who is the master of the passionate rush, when the lovers are almost discovered. Again, as with the <span style="color: black;">Salome, I</span> thought the orchestral sound picture was flattened. The blend again submerged the woodwind; especially annoying in Berlioz and echoing the same complaint I had with a much older Met recording by Levine of The Trojans. Also, here we have the large, lush international sound. There is not the French sound that for instance Elliott Gardiner achieves in his recording. But the pacing and sound was dramatic, passionate and in the delicate music, layered.<br />
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Graham was superb as Marguerite. She looks her age, again the camera close-ups do not permit you to suspend your disbelief, but she was the tragic heart of the evening. Marcello Giordani in the title role sounds too Italianate to me, he has most of the notes. But Berlioz writes cruelly high lines for the part and a French tenor of the kind that presently seems to be extinct would be preferable. Like most tenors, his acting is rough and ready, he is eager to please, but is fairly much a lump of wood. The third in the trio, John Relyea was at the other extreme in terms of agility and acting. It was a pantomime villain version and played superbly to the hilt. He has a beautiful dark voice, all the range and colouring there and he used it all. Dressed in a burnished red leather suit; he dominated the stage just as he needed to.<br />
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The chorus was superb, what a body of singers. A particular highlight musically and visually was the passage from the seductive 'Voici des roses' through to the end of the Ballet of the Sylphes. Here the chorus sang in a graduated tone with delicacy and they almost equaled the best version of this passage I know of, on the Gardiner discs. Visually, having punted across the first floor of the set, now a canal, the boat tipped Faust into the water, immediately the projections showed a spectacular underwater Faust swirling round and round, bubbles rising to the surface. A real visual coup. <br />
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The ride to the abyss was imaginatively handled on stage, though as so often, I wished the TV director would have allowed us more full-stage views, the stage production, by Robert Lepage surely will win prizes for being innovative and exciting. Perhaps in the theatre, it distracted from the music. But I went home happy and looking forward to Thais on the 20th December. <br />
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One thing I wish they would drop; the backstage comings and goings. It breaks the spell; especially with Ugly-Betty again tramping about after the diva, each handing the water bottle back and forth between them. With such magic on display, why do I have to watch the chorus walking off and chatting quietly to one another in between scenes?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> <strong><u>Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov Nov 08 ENO</u></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mussorgsky is not, I think, an apt candidate to have his operas translated into English. English National Opera is in the middle of a run of performances of Boris Godunov. Somehow the language sounded prissy when I want dark Russian vowel sounds. But then, I booked the tickets and ought to have known what I was in for.<br />
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This was the original seven scene version. Boris hardly appears in the first half of the opera and it ended with his death. The production was as fluid as could be, allowing the piece to be played seamlessly, without an interval. Two hours and 10 minutes; one long act from a Wagner opera. This version provides focus and concentration. The piece does remind me of Wagner in the feeling of epic scale, the blend of public and private events and the way in which the soloist vocal writing is laid out as a long series of monologues with next to no duetting or ensemble stretches. <br />
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We get the by now anticipated approaches to production: namely, one set throughout and updating of the timeframe. Here we seem to be in late pre-revolutionary Russia, it works perfectly well, the set seemed sometimes to be a barn, sometimes a courtyard or perhaps a chamber. The uncluttered stage allowed effective blocking of the large lustrous chorus who together with the orchestra provided the thrills of the evening. The production brought out the mordant humour of the peasants who complain in sly terms about their betters and become the embodiment of suffering, dictator-hungry Russia that I believe Mussorgsky intended. <br />
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Pimen held the stage in a way Boris could not. The stagecraft of Piman was evident even when he stood stock still, whilst<strong> </strong>Boris was diminished.Though the production did not help; where the feared, evil tyrant gave up his throne to accommodate the aged Pimen who had arrived to unsettle him even more than he unsettled himself. Boris was emollient towards the double dealing Prince Shuisky. More a <em>domestic </em>scale tyrant really. But the real problem was that the singer was unequal to the task; as though Dr Falke had strayed in from Fledermaus. The death scene was mainly in parlando, not because the singer had no voice, but seemed to think this was the appropriate approach! This was all a world away from such as Christoff who made a stupendous impression, with the majesty and pathos which were entirely missing from the singer confronting us.<br />
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But what a symphony, the orchestral writing is still startling. The memorable elements, the players and the massed chorus, the lighting, the fluid approach. But next time, I will make sure I see it in Russian.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><u>Massenet: Thais live MET NY Broadcast 20th December.</u></strong>Over 20 years ago, I was in chorus for a short concert tour of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. The Dido was Janet Baker, the Aeneas was a young man none of us knew. He had a healthy voice and sang very loudly indeed. In fact he overwhelmed the music; but it did not matter too much as Aeneas has not got a lot to sing in that opera. Last night I was forceably reminded of that singer again, it was Thomas Hampson on both occasions and, as years ago, I very much wanted to turn the volume down.<br />
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Of course, this was a telecast where a pin being dropped would sound like small arms fire, nevertheless, often I was wondering just what volume was marked into the score, was it really so relentlessly ff or fff?<br />
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The highlight of this opera is the entire second act, the music that sits either side of it is much less inspired. But that second act is worth the entry price on an occasional basis. There is also a duet in the first act between the two main characters, that fairly flew and I was grateful for the great skill of Lopez-Cobos who steered the piece terrifically well. <br />
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This is an strange opera, Thais and the priest Athanael never mutually fall in love; she taunts him in the first act, then has a convertion experience during the Meditation and thereafter is untouchable. The star crossed lover is the fundamentalist Athanael, who is tempted, holds himself in check, but eventually and impotently falls out of Agape and into Eros with the former courtesan. She dies in virtual sainthood, he lies stricken with his faith in tatters<br />
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I think the piece creaks and is only really worth reviving as a curiosity. I cannot think of any opera composer who has brought off this idea of apotheosis where the dying heroine sees angles, cherubim and seraphim.....it all sounds limp, even overworking of the theme from the Meditation does not really contribute to a satisfactory denouement. Thais is supposedly ravaged by physical suffering and she simply dies because of the physical trials she has been through. Fleming was not permitted to look less than ravishing and brimming with health. Never has a potential nun worn such carefully applied lipstick. But really the whole thing sits beside pantomime, so realism is quite beside the point. <br />
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Fleming looked and sounded wonderful. Very slim, dressed by Lacroix and with her cascade of hair, she was captivating. I simply could not, would not, fault the singing; coloured carefully, high sustained notes at pp, plenty of juicy tone, great arching phrasing, she was terrific. Hampson also looked great, a real presence on stage, he sounded just fine when he was at less than full blast, some grit has entered the voice, but it is still a wonderful instrument. <br />
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The production is spectacular; sets that stick with the opera's ancient timescale with a slightly modern twist; the costumes were a mix of Egyptian and 19th cent evening wear. It fitted OK, no jarring, but neither did the update add anything at all by way of a concept.<br />
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Again, we hardly ever got a full view of the stage, normally just when the curtain came down. The warmest applause was for the Meditation and the violinist playing it. At the end although the crowd reacted warmly, they did not linger long. More perhaps being slightly underwhelmed by the music than a comment on those who served it up to us.</span></div><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <u><strong>Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, MET NY Live Broadcast Jan 09</strong></u></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stephanie Blythe and Danielle de Niese star in Mark Morris’s production; James Levine conducts.<br />
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The last time I saw this piece was at the Edinburgh Festival. I could have cried with boredom. I really wanted to escape at half time, and it is a short opera. I do love the music, but a poor production is difficult to survive. Nor musically was it satisfactory. Michael Chance was made to stand at the back of the stage and he could not project into the theatre over the HIP orchestra, which itself was sluggish and tired sounding. It was a dismal evening.<br />
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That Edinburgh production was also choreographed by Mark Morris. I cringed while watching Morris himself, tossing his long locks about, stomping round like a sweaty carthorse, in a <em>very </em>short chiton and holding hands in daisy chains of dancers weaving about seemingly aimlessly during all the ballet music. I was very much hoping he had now retired from the stage. <br />
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He surely must have, though his short interview prior to curtain-up found him in full-on theatrical mode. Arms akimbo, wearing a baggy cardigan and a hot pink pashmina; he explained that the chorus represented all the people in history, many identifiable, Lincoln, Henry the VIII etc. They were there as underworld companions, supporters almost for Orfeo in his trials.<br />
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The edition used was the original Italian one, so some favourite numbers, such as the Dance of the Blessed Spirits were missing. It was played in one act straight through. Levine was at the helm and set a cracking pace with well sprung rhythms. As is clearly the norm now, everything was terrifically loud in the sound mix; again, almost no glimpses of a full stage picture. The orchestra sounded healthy in all respects, but Orig. Instrument enthusiasts would have been hiding under the bed.<br />
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Morris had found a way to keep the singers out of the way of the dancers. The 100 strong chorus...that sheer scale tells much about the weight of textures, was piled up in three tiers looking like fancy dress party goers who strayed into a Victorian lecture theatre to watch the dissection of a corpse. They sounded resplendant, but apart from some hand gestures had no room for maneuver. This worked just fine I thought, it looked good and was a practical solution to, as I said, keep them out of the way.<br />
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The main event of course was Stephanie Blythe's Orfeo. She looked like Orson Wells gone to seed. <br />
I remember Margaret Price appearing at a concert with a dress that had floating feathers round the neck; she was the dead spit of Miss Piggy; yet as soon as she opened her mouth, she transcended the look, she drew you in and what she looked like was irrelevant. Blythe managed the same chemistry. It is a remarkable voice; reminiscent of Marilyn Horne. She has not the top notes Horne had under her belt, but there is a similar weight and colour and a wonderful directness. The audience roared when she took her curtain call, I was not surprised. Her assumption was very strong. 'Che faro' yields to a lot of approaches, this was head-on direct, impassioned.<br />
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The Euridice was Danielle de Niese, she looked perfectly stunning. I wondered how her voice came across in the theatre, it is not a large instrument. Her reception was polite. On film she made a strong impression and her singing was expressive and sweet toned. Of course she has not a great deal to do; but I thought she deserved more warmth from the crowd.<br />
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The ballet music at the end was utterly joyful; but there were the Mark Morris dancers to watch. I know next to nothing about dance, but I can see he injected a number of his trademarks. He and the production as a whole were clearly much liked by the crowd. I know it has overall had excellent reviews; but I just find the whole deliberate clodhopping approach works against the elegance of the music. <br />
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The sets looked marvelous, the production solved some problems, though I did wonder whether Morris just took an easy way out by eliminating having to work with the chorus by removing it physically. He also provided a new problem for himself. If there need be any internal logic to such an entertainment, then the claim that the chorus were historical creatures of the underworld sat oddly in that final jubilant scene where they all seemed to be now inexplicably above ground in the pastoral ending.<br />
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Blythe is like a force of nature and would be worth queuing to hear in anything. Despite my carping, there was a lot to enjoy and the completely full cinema audience seemed to go home happy. For me Mark Morris goes onto my tick, done; indeed....overdone list.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <u><strong>Bellini: La Sonambula, MET Live Broadcast Jan 2009</strong></u></span><br />
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Several weeks ago, we went to the Butterfly broadcast; but there was vision and no sound. I resisted the temptation to stand up and ask whether there was a Butterfly in the house. We waited it out until the entrance of the soprano happened in silence; then literally started a stampede to get our money back. As a gesture of goodwill, as well as the refund, we were given tickets to tonight's Sonnambula broadcast.<br />
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Let's gloss over the fact that out tickets showed a 6pm start, when in fact it started at 5pm. We missed about the first 20 minutes. In future I will double check.<br />
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A pity we missed out, but we did nevertheless enjoy a terrific and musical performance. Here is the premise of the production.<br />
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Set in a contemporary rehearsal room where a traditional Swiss village style production is being prepared. The main duo happen to be played by a couple whose names are the same as those of the opera proper. The spurned fiance of Elvino is the stage manager of the production.....the events within the opera come to life in the lives of the characters playing them.....Oh Jees, give us a break.....what complete baloney. This conceit starts to fall apart when you consider the likes of the chorus opening Act 2. They speculate whether going to see the Count would help clear suspicion from Amina. Then off they go to find out, did she or did she not come across to the Count? Well, now are they genuinely concerned to avert the likely tragedy, or are they rehearsing the production? <br />
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How come the stage manager becomes a character in the opera? When she brings Amina back in from the window ledge, is she in character, or is she the stage manager anxious for her fellow artist?<br />
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Why set all this guff and layering up? <br />
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Anyway, let's sweep all that away, what the production did allow was for all the characters to interact very genuinely. The stage movement was fluid and focused on the story, emotions, the humour of the situation. <br />
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I don't think this cast could be bettered. Dessay still looks youthful, she is charming, humorous and heartbreaking. Her vocal technique is completely exceptional, as is her acting. The sleep walking scene was mostly played out from a plank of floorboarding that projected her far over the pit, she simply stood and delivered; but effectively and movingly.<br />
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Florez is her equal; glamour, a good actor, a really superb voice and good taste. Their duetting was a particular highlight. The pit was in the safe hands of Evelino Pido who ensured the verdant orchestration was brought out, often magically. But to me the real find here was the baritone, Michele Pertusi as the Count, a sympathetic and commanding stage presence was allied to a beautiful dark voice with useful bottom notes.<br />
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In the first act the sound was basically overpowering; this was sorted out for Act 2, there, the sound mix was comfortable. I enjoyed this at least as much as any of the earlier broadcasts. With its happy ending, wonderfully injected with humour and joy, we left the cinema on a high.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Puccini: </span></u></span><u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turandot Nov 09<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ENO</span></u></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, moving on...you need to know about that Turandot. Not in fact set in a fast food outlet as I had suspected, but in a large Chinese Restaurant. We might proceed with me answering a series of very obvious questions about the proceedings....<br />
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Were there by any chance three Elvis impersonators striking poses? <br />
Well, funny you ask that but, yes!<br />
How about golfers, any of them?<br />
Spot on! Yes two swinging away, one in baby blue the other in pastel pink. Odd thing, they came back after act 1 and restrained the tenor whilst the servant girl was being tortured, they did a good job there.<br />
How about nuns, I like an opera with nuns?<br />
Amazing, right on the button, there were two and a Chelsea Pensioner, also an ancient wino-hippy who was press ganged into becoming the Emperor, despite having flicked the V sign at all and sundry in his journeys round the restaurant. There was a head on a plate served up to the diners and a Hassidic Jewish man with a very fetching handbag.<br />
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You get the feel for this I guess; the theme was 'Randomness'. The sets were great and there were also a lot of projected Chinese ideograms sliding over the walls and floor, they made a really beautiful effect.<br />
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However, if I was to pick out my personal highlight of 'Randomness', it has to be the supernumerary writer. He silently observed and took notes throughout; excepting during 'In questa reggia' when he upstaged the soprano by sitting at the front of the stage eating with chopsticks and ignoring the Ice Princess. During the eventual love duet, Turandot got her theatrical revenge. She disemboweled him with a sword and the lovers then managed to ignore his trails of blood and much extended death throws. Those two lovers displayed remarkable self absorbsion. It was an original touch. <br />
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Musically the performance was rather good, but the eye was provoked and distracted by all sorts of mysteries. One mystery I sense that I did solve was that Chinese writing: it read. 'You round-eyes will sit through any old shit.'</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span>knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17322808435084419537noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068618846447586546.post-45259489068609702192011-02-27T21:51:00.000+00:002011-02-27T22:27:27.017+00:00The village of Bibury<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiURnx_tfhh4-Wb2wMoJb1E7wWe5W02sxZNRJ-Mk0d6VxIkyIfk_3ntpMrKpFY3U-a28pwcz0iUpISOpXaM0aYd2tp7DUkPa42Prz2NwY0Zo3Xnqu0ebvqZvRDG4uyJcZM-1FOyZvObPTM/s1600/Copy+%25281%2529+of+IMG_0636.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="153" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiURnx_tfhh4-Wb2wMoJb1E7wWe5W02sxZNRJ-Mk0d6VxIkyIfk_3ntpMrKpFY3U-a28pwcz0iUpISOpXaM0aYd2tp7DUkPa42Prz2NwY0Zo3Xnqu0ebvqZvRDG4uyJcZM-1FOyZvObPTM/s320/Copy+%25281%2529+of+IMG_0636.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div align="center">The Gloucestershire village of Bibury was described by William Morris as the most beautiful in England. Apart from the arterial road going through it, it will have changed little since he handed down that opinion. Although it does attract visitors, there are not any shops to speak of, so the traffic is not as heavy as it might otherwise be. The river runs along the side of the road, it is often full of trout, some hiding in the duckweed. I have seen it so dense with fish one could almost walk across the river using them as stepping stones. There is a fish farm at one end of the village. You pay entry to look at the fish, you pay to feed the fish, or to catch them, you can buy a recipe and buy filleted fish. A neat piece of exploitation of both visitors and of fish.</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">The early visitors can find the mist still on the river and stroll alone along the 300 year old weaver's cottages of Arlington Row. At the oppisite end of the village from the Fish Farm walk by the school into St Mary's churchyard, through it, past the barrel shaped tombs, you can enter the grounds of the Bibury Court Hotel. Walk along the water edge and encounter great peace, the bank of the river low to the water, the willows shading it along to the weir.</div><div align="center"><br />
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The last photograph that I took of my father was of him sitting in this chair with the sunshine striking him.<br />
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The church dates back to Saxon times; it has been remodeled and remodeled with 'wool' money and across from the hotel, there are often sheep grazing, still providing an income if not the riches that fueled the beauty of the church.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Tallulah Bankhead </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Nancy Banks-Smith</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">He was as sleek as a rat with a gold tooth. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The sun, like a debt collector at the door, had redoubled its hammering.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Berlioz</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">George Bernard-Shaw</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">MDB</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">To dispose of a spotty youth: Go: and take your acne with you! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I would rather extract all my teeth without anaesthetic. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">George W Bush </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We want results in every single classroom so that one single child is left behind </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours."</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>"Baseball is 90% mental -- the other half is physical."</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Winston Churchill</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your morning coffee.<br />
Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Billy Connolly </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oh aye...my Father would thrash me every now and then. He'd talk while he did it too! He'd hit me and shout, 'Have ye had enough?' Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? 'Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???' <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Noel Coward</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">If you must have motivation, think of your pay check on Friday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It was not Cafe Society, it was Nescafe Society. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The higher the building the lower the morals. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">There's always something fishy about the French. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Camelot, twice as long as Parsifal and not nearly as funny.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Bette Davies</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Old age isn’t for sissies </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Denis Diderot </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Disraeli</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Jimmy Durante </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Albert Einstein</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Paul Erlich </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">WC Fields</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">On his tombstone… 'On the whole, I'd rather be in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Philadelphia</city></place>'</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Children, I adore 'em; but I couldn't eat a whole one'</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Once ... in the wilds of <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</country-region></place>, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Children should neither be seen nor heard from - ever again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">(When asked why he never drank water) "Fish fuck in it."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Anyone who hates small dogs and children can't be all bad.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Start every day with a smile and get it over with. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">My boy, when I want to play with a prick, I will play with my own. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Samuel Goldwyn</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on" </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Ernest Hemingway </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Never mistake motion for action. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Samuel Johnson</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Patriotism is the last resort of a scoundrel.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Remarriage after divorce is the triumph of hope over experience.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Miles Jupp</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">'I'm privileged, not just to be here, but in general.' </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">'Had to put the dog down, needed the boot space'</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">'A beggar asked me for money. What, all of it, I said? Most of it's tied up in land. Ended up writing him a cheque.'</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">'We've all had trouble with low quality Stilton. It's like varicose Dairylea'</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">'They say an Englishman’s home is his castle, but I don’t think that’s strictly accurate. Only three of my homes are castles. And one of those is in <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">France</country-region></place>, so technically it’s a chateau'</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">'The first time I came to Edinburgh I was greeted by a pit-bull with one of those squeaky things in its mouth, what do you call them? Oh yes, toddlers.'</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Peter Kay</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">[Referring to the use of actual victims in crimewatch reconstructions] <br />
"She was shaking like a shitting dog...."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">[Referring to shop assistant when handed £20 for a small transaction]<br />
"She looked at me like I'd walked in on Christmas day and pissed over the kids...." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Niccolo Machiavelli </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Groucho Marx</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">A child of five could understand this. fetch me a child of five.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Room Service? Send up a larger room. </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><ul><li><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Go, and never darken my towels again. </span></div></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: red;">Mencken's dictum,</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."</strong></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Spike Milligan</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">"It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Miscellaneous </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of a spotty youth.... ‘He had a face like a pun o' raw mince’.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Referring to something revolting.…‘It wid pit ye aff yer mince fir a week’.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The things ye see, when ye huvney got yer gun!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The whole truth about any of us would shock all the rest of us. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Old age comes at a bad time</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">'You can tell the character of a man by the way he deals with someone who is not of use to him.'</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: #00007f; font-family: Arial;">The following excerpts are actual answers given on history tests and in Sunday school quizzes by children between 5th and 6th grade ages in <place w:st="on"><state w:st="on">Ohio</state></place>.<br />
They were collected over a period of three years by two teachers. Read carefully for grammar, misplaced modifiers, and of course, spelling!<br />
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A) Ancient <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Egypt</country-region></place> was old. It was inhabited by gypsies and mummies who all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate Of the Sarah is such that<br />
all the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.<br />
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B) Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the <place w:st="on">Red Sea</place> where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on <place w:st="on"><placetype w:st="on">Mount</placetype> <placename w:st="on">Cyanide</placename></place> to get the ten commandos. He died before he ever reached <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Canada</country-region></place> but the commandos made it <br />
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C) Socrates was a famous old Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. He later died from an overdose of wedlock Which is apparently<br />
poisonous. After his death, his career suffered a Dramatic decline.<br />
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D) Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of <place w:st="on">Gaul</place>. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped<br />
out "Same to you, Brutus"<br />
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E) Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen," As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "hurrah!" and that was the end<br />
of the fighting for a long while.<br />
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F) Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper which was very dangerous to all his men.<br />
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G) The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is<br />
famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.<br />
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H) Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration<br />
of <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Independence</city></place>. <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Franklin</city></place> discovered electricity by Rubbing two cats backward and also declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." He was a naturalist for sure. <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Franklin</city></place> died in 1790 and is still dead.<br />
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I) On the night of April 14, 1865, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Lincoln</city></place> went to the theatre and got Shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. They believe the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor This ruined Booth's career<br />
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J) Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his<br />
attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large.<br />
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K) Charles Darwin was a naturalist. He wrote the Organ of the Species. It was very long people got upset about it and had trials to see if it was really true. He sort of said God's days were not just 24 hours but without watches who knew anyhow? I don't get it.<br />
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L) Karl Marx was one of the Marx Brothers. The other three were in the movies. Karl made speeches and started revolutions. Someone in the family had to have a job, I guess</span><br />
<span style="color: #00007f; font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">From BBC Music Mag: Headline of an article about how much the sister of composer Mendelssohn meant to him....'Fanny Was Absolutely Central to the Life of Mendelsson'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">French proverb: A father is a banker supplied by God.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Anon: A man is only as old as he looks and if he only looks: he’s old.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of Oliver Martinez....No doubt he enters every room to the sound of falling knickers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Dorothy Parker</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">A rival opened a door and standing aside commented, 'Age before beauty' She shot back. 'pearls before swine'</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: red;">Enoch Powell.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">"To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Terry Pratchett</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Sir Christopher Soams</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">An ex described sex with him thus:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">''Like having a large double wardrobe fall on top of you....with the key still in the keyhole''</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Joseph Stalin</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Mark Twain</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Never run after your own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wagner has some wonderful moments: and some very dull quarters of an hour.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Third Rock from the Sun</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><ul><li><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Power is given; control is taken<b></b></span></div></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Peter Ustinov</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Friends are not necessarily the people you like best: they just got there first.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying, it can't be done.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice was that what she thought didn't amount to much.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Voltaire</span></div><ul><li><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The best is the enemy of the good</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Ruby Wax</span></div><ul><li><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">'My leotard was so tight: I could taste it.'</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Mae West</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It's not the men in your life, it's the life in your men.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Actress to Mae West, 'Goodness, what beautiful pearls' May...'Goodness had nothing to do with it'</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I always say, keep a diary, and some day it'll keep you. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It's better to be looked over than overlooked.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
<span style="color: red;">Oscar Wilde</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Youth is wasted on the young.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">People now, they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">She looked as though she had got up in a storm and dressed in a tempest</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">When we are young, we love our parents, when we grow up, we judge them, sometimes we forgive them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">When widowed, she went quite blond from grief.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I can resist everything except temptation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">To lose one parent could be called a misfortune, but to lose two is carelessness.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Murder is always a mistake......one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(On his deathbed)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either this wallpaper goes or I go</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">'Each man kills the thing he loves'.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Kenneth Williams</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Critics are like eunuchs: they watch it done every night, they know how it is done, but they can't do it themselves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">P.G. Woodhouse </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">She had a voice like cavalry charging over a metal bridge. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">She was a real 12 minute egg</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;">Steven Wright</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">You can't have everything. Where would you put it? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">OK, so what's the speed of dark ? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add to it. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">(Referring to a glass of water) I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt;"><u><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;"><strong>The wisdom of Mike Tyson</strong></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 18.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Note: Some of the words have been censored because this is fromTripod. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b>My Favorite Mike Tyson Quote</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“[He] called me a ‘rapist’ and a ‘recluse.’ I’m not a recluse.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b>On <place w:st="on">Lennox</place> Lewis</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!" </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"My main objective is to be professional but to kill him." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b>On Evander Holyfield</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"You got nothing coming, man. I'm going to enjoy this fight." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">After biting Holyfield he said, "This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. He butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I cannot defend it, but it happened." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"I could have knocked him out in the third round but I wanted to do it slowly, so he would remember this night for a long time." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b>On His Wife</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"I paid a worker at <place w:st="on"><state w:st="on">New York</state></place>'s zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin. When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b>On His Childhood</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like a infantile retard." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b>On Fans</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">To a question on whether he feels support from the common fan: "I don't feel love from them because there's no love. They don't know me as an individual; they know me for what I actually do. Because they pay to see me smash anybody. If they're white they pay, [it's] because the only thing they have respect for is my ability as an athlete. But if I was in court and I had to use them to testify against me on my character, they wouldn't testify positively against me and they would think I'm a cad..." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"I think the average person thinks I'm a f**king nut and I deserve whatever happens to me. That's what I believe." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b>On His Time in Prison</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"You have to understand, Frank Bruno would not have been champion if I had not been in prison. Oliver McCall would not have been champion if I had not been in prison. A lot of these guys would not have been champion. Michael Moorer would not have been champion. Those guys would not have been champion if I had been around. They would have had no legacy. None of those guys would have had a legacy." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"I would have been in shape. I would have been active. Holyfield, those guys wouldn't have been champion when I was around, but I went away for four or five years inactive and that made them competitive for a time." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"But you really have to look at the science of the situation. You guys come here to talk and report but you don't actually look at the facts of what this business is all about. The best thing that happened to those guys and they should stand on their mother's shoulders and kiss my ass because I went to prison or they would not be existing right now. They'd be a flash in the pan and would have made some money and opened up a restaurant or bar somewhere where they live at." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b>On Boxing</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"I try to catch him right on the tip of the nose, because I try to push the bone into the brain." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's a highly intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it [their self-control]." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry. They're just as good as dead." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"My power is discombobulatingly devastating I could feel is muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Tyson: "It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'm going to strip them of their health. I bring pain, a lot of pain." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b>On His Family</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"No one gives a f**k about me. No one cares if my children starve, if they're on welfare. I have to support my children. I need more money." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Mike, on his mother who died in 1982: "I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b>On the Media</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">[To a female reporter] "It's no doubt I am going to win this fight and I feel confident about winning this fight. I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them. So you shouldn't talk anymore... Unless you want to, you know." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"People [are] going to say what they say. It has to be for a reason. It's just for a reason. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people. I ask this lady a lewd question because I'm in a lot of pain too. I have some pain I'm gonna have for the rest of my life. And Lewis, I'm trying to give some of that pain to ya'll." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"You gentlemen have no idea what it's like to be myself, no idea what it's like. I'm not interested in being humiliated anymore." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"Sometimes you guys have no pride, so no matter what I say, you guys ... it doesn't affect you because you don't care about nothing but money. So every now and then I kick your f**king ass and stomp on you and put some kind of pain and inflict some of the pain on you because you deserve to feel the pain that I feel." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"If I take this camera and put it in your face for 20 years, I don't know what you might be. You might be a homosexual if I put that camera on you since you were 13 years old. I've been on that camera since I was 13 years old." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b>On Himself</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm also not Charles Manson!" </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too. I think it's un-American not to go out with a woman, not to be with a beautiful woman, not to get my dick sucked ... It's just what I said before, everybody in this country is a big f**king liar. [The media] tells people ... that this person did this and this person did that and then we find out that were just human and we find out that Michael Jordan cheats on his wife just like everybody else and that we all cheat on our f**king wife in one way or another either emotionally, physically or sexually or one way." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"There's no one perfect. We're always gonna do that. Jimmy Swaggart is lascivious, Mike Tyson is lascivious -- but we're not criminally, at least I'm not, criminally lascivious. You know what I mean. I may like to fornicate more than other people -- it's just who I am. I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid? I mean, I been robbed of my most of my money, can I at least get [oral sex] without the people wanting to harass me and wanting to throw me in jail?" </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"I'm the most irresponsible person in the world. The reason I'm like that is because, at 21, you all gave me $50 or $100 million, and I didn't know what to do. I'm from the ghetto. I don't know how to act. One day I'm in a dope house robbing somebody. The next thing I know, 'You're the heavyweight champion of the world.' ... Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child. I'm being abused. I'm being robbed by lawyers. I think I have more money than I do. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks I'm someone. And you tell me I should be responsible?" </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b>On His Mental Health</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"I don't know if I'm mentally sick, but I have... episodes sometimes. I'm a depressant kind of dude. I have episodes, and I'm human. But no one cares about my health as a human because sometimes I'm in my episodes when I'm at work." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"Well, [contemplating suicide] goes through everyone's mind, I'm sure. And if it doesn't I really must be crazy. Everyone thinks about that because sometimes, you know what I mean, it's just tough being a ni**er and it's tough being a bad ni**er." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"I'm on the Zoloft [an antidepressant] to keep from killing y'all." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b>On <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">America</country-region></place></b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"I'm just a dark guy from a den of iniquity. A dark shadowy figure from the bowels of iniquity. I wish I could be Mike who gets an endorsement deal. But you can't make a lie and a truth go together. This country wasn't built on moral fiber. This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime." </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span>knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17322808435084419537noreply@blogger.com0