“I treated this day in a similar fashion, allowing [it]…..to pass without doing anything, and vowing that I would begin to work on the morrow” – Proust: The Captive (La Prisonnière) – – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 7 October 2020
Jim is giving us free rein for Song Lyric Sunday this week. Which is timely. Tomorrow is my – by which, of course, I mean ‘our’ – 46th wedding anniversary and this is the first record I ever bought for my darling wife. The words were true then and they are just as true now.…
“The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity” – Proust: The Captive (La Prisonnière) – – – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 30 September 2020
Jim’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is siblings. ‘ Leonard Cohen’s ‘Sisters of Mercy’ was the first song that came to my mind, but I’ve already deployed it in this thread. Fortunately, I then recalled one of the deeper cuts from the Rolling Stones’ seminal ‘Sticky Fingers’ album, released in 1971. Like most…
“As for people in society, there are very few things that they remember” – Proust: The Captive (La Prisonnière) – – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 23 September 2020
‘Let us now praise famous Canadians’ is the essence of Jim’s prompt for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. If you’ve dropped by hoping for some Justin Bieber then you’re definitely in the wrong place, but there’s plenty of excellent Canadian music to choose from. As I haven’t featured him for a while, I’ve gone with…
“If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it upon other people” – Proust: Cities Of The Plain (Sodome et Gomorrhe) – – – – – – – – – #1liner Weds 16 September 2020
Jim’s theme this week is ‘contrasts. This song – which surely needs no further introduction – is full of them. You say yes, I say no You say stop and I say go go go, oh no You say goodbye and I say hello Hello hello I don’t know why you say goodbye, I say…
“I may tell you that I attach little importance to knowledge. Things that can be learned do not interest me.” – Proust: Cities Of The Plain (Sodome et Gomorrhe) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 9 September 2020
A complete change of pace this week for Song Lyric Sunday, as Jim has chose the themes of Musical and Opera. As a general rule, I can’t get to grips with musicals, apart from the odd so-called ‘jukebox’ type. The one about Tina Turner was pretty good. When it comes to opera, I do have…
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