For what it's worth: The poem prompted me to purchase "Ulysses" by James Joyce. Then I took to reading it, and I managed to get as far as the first sentence: "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."...

Vickie, on your "alpha journey" through the songs, you have caught up with the present, you are up to date. So there is nothing left to interfere with doing whatever you like — listen to the foretaste, or wait until 22nd November. Now, I'm aware that this won't be very helpful… ;-) Myself ...

The neighbour returns / my smile of defeat.

You're welcome, Lisa. I'm glad you liked the lyrics.
In a similar vein, although in another thread, I had "a spade", too.

But I'm afraid "this bizarre corner" is a bit too bizarre for me to fend in...

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http://ooltra.net/Lyrics.php?a=EdithPia ... MotsDAmour

The only problem I can see with calling a spade a spade is, how to ascertain whether it is a spade or not. And for this problem I have no solution. ● As so often, I wrote something and then decided rather not to post it. This time I changed my mind in what concerns the following: > The more I look a...

Hm, the vinyls of old used to have two sides. Maybe there will be one part songs (or poetry with music) and one part music only. And maybe it's something totally different… BTW Jean, could you enlighten me on the "Flower Sermon," I am not familiar with it. Well, I might try to give a few i...

4, I'm very much with you. (Concerning "My Oh My", I beg to differ. I can't help linking this song to the Flower Sermon.) Somewhere, as my memory has it, Leonard Cohen said something to the effect that the rest (to come) was music, or mostly. Which would be coherent, even though one should...

tularosa, je vous ai envoyé un message personnel.

Nora sings in different languages, and to my ear her careful diction sounds extremely good. She's not aping some rote-learned stuff without understanding it. Still influenced by several hundred hours spent with Federico García Lorca, I'm all the more deeply touched by her meaningful "I remember...

Update — Letter to Granny Lilith 1) The second link in my letter to Granny Lilith has become inconclusive. 2) Until 13th August 2019, the following link leads to an update in replay on Arte, a Franco-German cultural TV channel (unfortunately not in English — only in German, in French, in French wit...

Agreed, 4.

And then Yin and Yang are inseparable, aren't they — as it happens, the contrary applies to the phrase "Many happy returns!"

Many happy returns, Bev!

Many thanks once again for your appreciation, Bev! And do ask me — hoping I can help… Previously I had skipped this: While looking through that most bloody of poems, The King of Harlem, this line caught my eye, “there must be some way out of here” – it’s the same line from a Bob Dylan song, All Alon...

Maybe he was no direct witness.