TODAY'S REASONS TO LIVE
1. The Philippe Halsman photograph of Dali with Rhinoceros.
2. In 1942, the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus presented The Circus Polka: a ballet of 50 bedecked, bedizened and betutued elephants and 50 dancers. Balanchine had agreed to choreograph, and snagged Stravinsky to score. Balanchine's version of that conversation:
B: "I wonder if you'd like to do a little ballet with me."
Stravinsky: "For whom?"
B: "For some elephants."
Stravinsky: "How old?"
B: "Very young."
Stravinsky: "All right. If they are very young elephants, I will do it.”
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
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