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Keeping the conversation going
Give me a topic and a date in December, if you like. I'll do my best to hold forth.
2013-12-02
Opera
Since I just put in the request for topics, I'm choosing my own today.
There is an article in today's Guardian about boredom, or, perhaps more accurately, about being bored by certain art forms within certain contexts. Opera is the particular form mentioned, but there's a certain branching out, both in the article and the comments to other things: long movies, Shakespeare, certain novels. (I admit, I still haven't gotten through bloody Ivanhoe.) According to the Google Doodle, it's also Maria Callas birthday (and I know it's my Dad's 81st).
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There is an article in today's Guardian about boredom, or, perhaps more accurately, about being bored by certain art forms within certain contexts. Opera is the particular form mentioned, but there's a certain branching out, both in the article and the comments to other things: long movies, Shakespeare, certain novels. (I admit, I still haven't gotten through bloody Ivanhoe.) According to the Google Doodle, it's also Maria Callas birthday (and I know it's my Dad's 81st).
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