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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2013 9:19:41 GMT -5
Miss Matthews of the Bristol University advises every aspiring writer while yet a child to spend his days alone in an attic. "For the Tennyson boys," she remarks, "the attic was a sanctuary, a hidden space wherein to create alternative realities." And the Lincoln Chancery in the 1870s housed the Benson children's "museum" of personal treasures. Rupert Brooks thought his attic "the only room in the house a human being with an æsthetic soul can live in for an hour." "The attic is an æsthetic retreat in any home," concludes Miss Matthews - who bears the absurd forename "Samantha."
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Post by ahinton on Jun 3, 2013 17:42:57 GMT -5
Miss Matthews of the Bristol University advises every aspiring writer while yet a child to spend his days alone in an attic. "For the Tennyson boys," she remarks, "the attic was a sanctuary, a hidden space wherein to create alternative realities." And the Lincoln Chancery in the 1870s housed the Benson children's "museum" of personal treasures. Rupert Brooks thought his attic "the only room in the house a human being with an æsthetic could can live in for an hour." "The attic is an æsthetic retreat in any home," concludes Miss Matthews - who bears the absurd forename "Samantha." What's absurd about "Samantha" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha q.v.)? Cole Porter, David Cameron and the late Humphrey Lyttelton, among others, might like to know. And surely it's "Rupert Brooke", not "Rupert Brooks"? (the latter sounding like a most unwelcome conflation of Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks)... |
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Post by neilmcgowan on Jun 5, 2013 5:13:16 GMT -5
Handel spent his youthful years in an attic.
His parents disapproved of his love of music, and banned him from learning the violin or harpsichord. A schoolfriend's family had a clavichord they no longer wanted, and he and Handel conspired to drag it up to the attic of Handel's house. He practiced and improvised for hours up there.
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Post by ahinton on Jun 5, 2013 7:38:11 GMT -5
Handel spent his youthful years in an attic. His parents disapproved of his love of music, and banned him from learning the violin or harpsichord. A schoolfriend's family had a clavichord they no longer wanted, and he and Handel conspired to drag it up to the attic of Handel's house. He practiced and improvised for hours up there. The teenage Haydn had experiences that were not entirely dissimilar. |
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