Where the wailing of a baby meets the footsteps of the dead

[sovay]

Our room looks like the Classics Library exploded and then a dormitory moved in to colonize the wreckage. yuki_onna, grailquestion, godlyperspectiv, and I are all sharing space, and the amount of technology in this single hotel room is staggering. We've got cellphones, laptops, iPods, coffee makers . . . I think we're creating a kind of post-student singularity here. If we don't all collapse into total bohemia by Monday night, I'll be very worried.

I think I have the complete works of Greg Nagy piled underneath the fold-out suitcase thing. And a lot of Homeric epic. This mixes uneasily with E.T.A. Hoffmann. If I let them reproduce, I will have hexametric Kreisleriana.

On second thought . . .

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[thomasfreund.livejournal.com]

E.T.A. Hoffmann + Homeric epic? Sounds like the upshot could be a Greek chorus trying to sing Les oiseaux dans la charmille from the Offenbach version.

If that doesn't scary enough, I actually came across a choral arrangement of the Queen of the Night's second aria. It's in the original key, but the solo line is moved down to the ALTO part and everyone else sings the orchestral parts. But with the words of the solo. ::shiver::

[sovay]

but the solo line is moved down to the ALTO part and everyone else sings the orchestral parts. But with the words of the solo.

Anathema! Anathema! Retro me, transposition!