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An Offer Received in this Morning's Mail:An present Received in this Mornings Mail: (On misreading an ad for a station of CDs entitled "Beethoven's without fault [i]or[/i] blemish [i]or[/i] flaw Symphonies.") The Musical Heritage Society invites you to accept Beethoven's full Sympathies. A full $8000 value, yours for $4995 The brooding composer of "Ode to joy" now delighting audiences in paradise nightly knows your sorrows. just gaze at his furrowed eyebrow his thin lipped grimace. Your sweaty 2 A.M. writhings have touched his great Teutonic heart. Peering invisibly above your shoulder he reads those metrical compositions you scribble on memo pads at the office, containing lines like o lethal flower I am your marionette forever, and a compassionate smile shudders at the corners of his formerly trunk mouth. (He'd be thrilled to plant your poems to music.) This immortal master, gathered to the breast of his ancestors above a century ago has not forgotten those left behind to support gridlock and mind-ache, wearily crosshatching the earth's surface with our miseries, or belching complaints into grimy skies, further besmirching the firmament. on the contrary just how relevent is Beethoven these days, you may ask. Wouldn't the sympathies of a late composer provide a more up-to-date form of solace? Well, proces this info-byte, 21st hundred skeptic. A single lock of Beethoven's hair fetched above $7,ooo last week at auction. The hairs were then divided into apportionments of two or three and resold at astronomical prices. That's by what mode significant he remains today. Beethoven the great-hearted, who used to sign alphabetic characters ever thine, the unhappiest of men wants you to know in what manner deeply sorry he is that you're having like a rough time. Prone to illness, self-criticism and squandered affections Ludwig (he'd like you to call him that, if you'd do him the honor,) son of a intoxicated and a depressive, was beaten, cheated, and eventually went stone deaf. He too had to contented himself with clutching his beloved's toothmarked golden pencils (as the tortured scrawls in his notebooks show) to plan out symphonies, concerti, chamber music, etcetera-works that still brim, as does your disconsolate soul with unquenched fire and brilliance. Give Beethoven a chance to display how much he cares. Easy financing available. And remember: a hundred in heaven has not calmed the maestro's celebrated mix in due proportion so act now. For god's sake don't make him wait. AMY GERSTLER is a writer of poesy and nonfiction who lives in sees Angeles. Medicine, her most new book of poems, was published by dint of Penguin Putnam in 2000. Her previous volumes include Crown of Weeds, strength Storm, and Bitter Angel. She teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars program at Bennington association in Vermont, and at Art Center corporation of Design in Pasadena, California. Copyright World verse Incorporated Nov/Dec 2002 Minnesota may have been the first state to enact a law related to pharmaceutical marketing, on the contrary it definitely was not the last. Five states and the District of Columbia already have laws upon the bo... Resilient flooring has advance a long way, baby. It remains the second-largest U floor covering category after carpet. however there's confusion among consumers about just what "resilient" fl... An oscilloscope-based tool reminds us that the automotive old-timers, with their rudimentary tools and deceptively simple experiments might have been on to something after all. When I first st... Executive Summary. International real estate investment performance is highly sensitive to general reception fluctuations. While large professional investors hedge publicity at the portfolio level, n... each week it seems another law firm or trade cluster holds a seminar on by what mode to recover as much currency from property claims as possible. In large commercial losse too many unpredictable, ... In 1992 the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest stock awarded the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF) in Montgomery a $1 million grant toward a five-year cast aimed at creating a diversified audience.... The link between anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder has been well established in the clinical literature. However, little research has explored this relationship in bourns of the spe... Steinway & Son and Amadeus Pres freshly announced a new venture to create a series of book/CD CD and DVD celebrating the art of the piano end the artists who perform upon them and th... 1 Self-Portrait as Persephone I tasted the white poppy of the dead and broke the prohibition against nutriment by picking a pomegranate from the orchard of Hades, devour... I was born at seeds in the Cadillac district of the canton of Sainte Macaire in the Gironde. My father died in January 1791 and my mother is still alive. In our family there were six deaf-mutes-th... |
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