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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-12-03 10:17 pm
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Someone has left a spear stuck in the sand

Oh, hell! Christopher Logue. And the sixth volume of War Music still unfinished.

Achilles' face
Is like a chalkpit fringed with roaring wheat.
His brain says: "Kill him. Let the Greeks sail home."
His thigh steels flex.

I am totally watching him as Swinburne in Ken Russell's Dante's Inferno (1967).
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[identity profile] kerrickadrian.livejournal.com 2011-12-04 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, fuck. I quite liked War Music.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2011-12-04 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
I wish I'd heard of War Music before. The excerpts are brilliant.

I'm sorry he's gone, and without a chance to finish it. May he rest in peace.

[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2011-12-04 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Damn.

That's magnificent stuff.

Nine
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[identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com 2011-12-04 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Ach. War Music is a work I've been going back to since vol one. Logue and I drank wine together after a reading, but I hardly remember the man at all; it's the poetry that bit deep. As it should be. Work for the ages. And, yeah. Unfinished. Which is maybe kinda fitting, but.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2011-12-04 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
He and Russell within days of each another. Heigh-ho...

But didn't they both make hay while the sun shone!
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2011-12-04 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd forgotten that it was Logue who wrote the screenplay for Russell's marvelous Savage Messiah.

I haven't read War Music, but I clearly must!
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