Ugo
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Posted: Jan. 05 2011, 18:33 |
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@ Syd & Nightspore: I also have a degree in English Language and Literature, I am a teacher of English and a near-professional translator. Yet the only-ever time I've heard (or better: seen) the name Ayn Rand was when The Fountainhead was mentioned by a comically dirty character in the Dirty Dancing movie as a book that Baby should read. Judging from the context of that scene, I had assumed that The Fountainhead was some sort of dirty book. From what I've been able to read on Wikipedia it's not, but I see it's got strong political overtones, just like the writer herself - so none of them are really my cup of tea. Anyway, I think that being familiar with a writer or a writer's education has nothing to do with someone's education; it has much more to do with the writer's ability to make himself or herself known, or, in other words, with the quality of his/her work. There are old peasants and farmers in Tuscany who are so uneducated that they can't even write out their own name, yet they can recite Dante's Divine Comedy from start to finish as they know the entirety of it by heart. And they know what it means.
Back on topic, I think this is becoming slightly in danger (oh, what a danger!! ) of merging or meshing with "What are you playing this very second?" because it is about being in a particular mood, is it? It's about the way you are feeling right now and what sort of music may go along with it. Anyway, as down here it's still officially Christmas time (the last day of vacation is tomorrow) I happened to catch a Chrismas-themed but IMHO very un-Christmas-ish song on the radio a couple of days ago, and it stuck in my head. You can clearly hear that it was made especially for Coca-Cola , but what the heck, I think it's really good. I do have the CD of it, it's a "special edition" of an already-released album. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kisZciB922M
-------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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