Grippe

[Chris Broderick]

I just reread the intro to Slow Learner, and came upon
this:

"In the character of Callisto I was trying for a sort
of world-weary Middle-European effect, and put in the
phrase grippe espagnole, which I had seen on some
liner notes to a recording of Stravinsky's  l'Histoire
du Soldat.  I must have thought this was some
post-World War I spiritual malaise or something.  Come
to find out it means what it says, Spanish Influenza."

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