Moonstruck
alice malice
alicewmalice at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 05:39:32 CDT 2015
at 135-136 a familiar theme, the conflict of fathers and sons over
work, or the chosen profession of the son. Here, the men of science
are insulted by their own families, called to do astrology, named the
star gazers. It's maddening to Nevil and to Charles, though Mason has
not yet come to appreciate what Nevil does, it is a common enough
generational gap problem and not, as Mason suspects, something
painfully his own. Charles's insecurities are no match for Nevil's
paranoia. Of course, they are but players who fret and strut upon a
stage of Paradise Lost. So Shakespeare and Milton are in The Moon.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:31 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Alabama Song or Moon Over or Of Alabama originally published as a
> poem in Bertolt Brecht's Hauspostille (1927). Doors, Bowie...and
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVeD-xwJh-k
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 2:08 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, show me the way to the next whisky bar,
>> Oh, don't ask why!
>>
>> 2015-03-08 19:00 GMT+01:00 alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> The Moon is full of women, who in a chorus sing of their need for Men
>>> in the Moon. The Moon, not exactly Cheers, but still a local gin mill
>>> where everyone knows that they don't know your name and that you're
>>> the New-comer.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > We will remember the Moon motif in the section of M&D we are in.
>>> >
>>> -
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>>
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