Comments on: A year of temperance

By: woolfian

woolfian — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:07:40 +0000

Miss Fiamma, I knew you had great taste in music, so the well-tempered Bach is only a natural choice for you (you are only missing Zelenka, if you haven’t approached the man yet…fascinating). And yes, you are right, Bach left a highly creative form of temperance as a legacy.

I completely agree with the new cardinal virtues. However, I guess peace and order worked differently for Poe than they did for Jane Austen….and yet I like them both, each in his and her own way.

May variety have us all grow up to be enlightened beings!

Regards,

By: Fiamma

Fiamma — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:00:03 +0000

The well tempered hapsichord???? One of the great masterpieces. And my favorite, as a matter of fact.

Peace, order, creativity. That’s all what we should know about the (new) cardinal vitues.

Regards

By: woolfian

woolfian — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:03:44 +0000

Emi,

I think the “dry drunk” is the norm, but some of us have a potential agreement with addictions to liquid or solid substances, and we only let them go as far as we consider necessary. After all, the famous saying claims wet drunks are those who tell the truth, not dry ones. Being dry only puts aggression and awareness on a different level, I believe, in some cases channeling it into something positive and, in many others, transforming it into its contained self (therefore, much worse because it is delusional).

I don’t know if Poe had an answer to life’s woes, I think he was honest and simply capitulated — bottle or no bottle. Therefore, I would say he had more questions than anything else. That is why I agree with that dream within a dream vision of his in the quote. We are what we dream we are. How far away from ourselves our illusion is…well, that’s another question, but you already know, don’t you?

Thanks for stopping by, as usual. I hope your hell has had some air conditioning…

A kiss to you,

By: emi_sur

emi_sur — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:16:12 +0000

Woolfian: Será que “dry drunk”, es una categoría, un puente que inventaron para la aceptación aquellos seres tan dignos de la desconfianza del mundo, que son los abstemios……no lo sé, pero es probable.
Como a mi todo esto de la templanza más que a POE me resuena a Platón, no me animo a seguir pensando o interpretando las respuestas de poeta, o las preguntas (da lo mismo), porque no hay nada más peligroso que buscar pensando.
De cualquier modo siempre es refrescante encontrarse a Poe y sus fantasmas en una mañana que anuncia un infierno, digamos que es todo un detalle.

La saludo con el 2009 aun naciendo