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autographedcatYou can live three days without bread--without poetry, never...you need
art.
Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and
cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural
equilibrium of the ideal. You understand its function , you gentlemen of
the bourgeoisie--whether lawgivers or businessmen--when the seventh or
eighth hour strikes and you bend your tired head towards the embers of
your hearth or the cushions of your armchair. That is the time when a
keener desire and a more active reverie would refresh you after your
daily labors.
--Charles Baudelaire "To the Bourgeois" - The Salon of 1846 (1846)
art.
Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and
cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural
equilibrium of the ideal. You understand its function , you gentlemen of
the bourgeoisie--whether lawgivers or businessmen--when the seventh or
eighth hour strikes and you bend your tired head towards the embers of
your hearth or the cushions of your armchair. That is the time when a
keener desire and a more active reverie would refresh you after your
daily labors.
--Charles Baudelaire "To the Bourgeois" - The Salon of 1846 (1846)
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Marillion!
Date: 2003-09-17 08:42 pm (UTC)Is it me, or is the structure very similar to Genesis' "Supper's Ready" (another great long tune)? Or maybe it's the odd meter in the last section -- 7/4?
Now to get a small group of filkers together to actually *play* the song. What musical power and magick we can generate!
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Date: 2003-09-18 10:31 am (UTC)Debbie