April 23, 2003
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Midnight in the Garden
of Good and Evil
on Shakespeare’s Birthday
Tony Scherman on an April 7, 1968, recording by Nina Simone:
“…nobody could telescope more emotion into a single, idiosyncratically turned syllable (listen to the way she says the word “Savannah” in her spoken intro to “Sunday in Savannah.” It breaks your heart — and she ain’t even singin’ yet!).”
See also the following entries on midnight in the garden:
Trinity, Oct. 25, 2002
Midnight in the Garden, Oct. 26, 2002
Point of No Return, Dec. 10, 2002
Culture Clash at Midnight, Dec. 11, 2002
Dead Poets Society, Dec. 13, 2002
For the Dark Lady, Dec. 18, 2002
Nightmare Alley, Dec. 21, 2002
For the Green Lady, Dec. 21, 2002
“With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced.”
– Opening sentence of Martha Cooley’s The Archivist
Woe unto
them that
call evil
good, and
good evil;
that put
darkness
for light,
and light
for darkness
Isaiah 5:20
As she spoke about the Trees of Life and Death, I watched her….
The Archivist
The world
has gone
mad today
And good’s
bad today,
And black’s
white today,
And day’s
night today
Cole Porter
Comments (1)
Indeed. A tapestry. We’re all in the same bolt.
(you know, as opposed to the same ‘boat’?)
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I’m in total admiration of this particular post.