AtD On a plist discussion topic

[Mark Kohut]

Alice reads closely and writes:
"But I would say you've misread this passage. For Cyprean fails to hear
what might have been (that subjunctive, as Tanner so brilliantly
describes it in his essay on M&D is quite sigficiant here) prophetic.
The period of the next sentence is not the romantic period (and one
might argue that Mozart is not a romantic afterall), but this period.
And, it is the failure, or the distortion of the current period, an
unnatural heightening that is the target here, not the romantic's
sublime but the perversion, and here, as in GR, it is the hoomosexual
S&M perversion of romance that is the target of satire."  


You might have had me without Tanner, but upon several rereadings,
 I think you are right.

I can, we all can, "understand too soon"......

After reading about that Piano Concerto, pastel (as adjective for music, 
esp early Mozart via contrast) and Romanticism I think one correct reading is
that Romanticism, as in that later Piano Concerto, overlay in subfusc the 'outmoded
pastels" and audible 'great trembling" & showed in music all that co-existed
in society with Romanticism. 
 
The ideal behind the 'unnatural heightening' is the
pastel world without perversion. Yes? 

see wikipedia for ALL that TRP worked into THAT. If.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism
 
Anyone [else]; anyone, anyone?






On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On p. 713, in his offhand, oblique narrator saying kind of way, TRP gives us this
> on Romanticism and Romance (two senses of) in this
>
> Romance known as Against the Day: Cyprian hears, either inside of outside his head (!!)
> the Adagio from the Mozart Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488. "It might have been prophetic
> had he been listening. This was a period in human emotion when "romance' had slipped into
> an inexpensive subfusc of self-awareness, unnaturally heightening the effect of the outmoded
> pastels peeping from beneath, as if in some stylistic acknowledgment of the great trembling
> that showed through, now and then, to some more than others, of a hateful future nearly
> at hand and inescapable. But many were as likely to misinterpret the deep signals as physical symptoms......
> ....'as nerves"....as "romance".....
>
> Take THAT, Romantics. Take THAT Harold Bloom.