Greil, Ty just deleted a couple of my posts. Here they are-
Violence is physical. She was not touched. The comparisons are inapt and don't make common sense.
I'm referring to Stacy in our outside project who wasn't touched and comparisons to Altamont and The Perfect Neighbor which comparisons to physical violence don't wash .Its possible you can find a statute dealing with emotional distress but writing and typing are covered by freedom of speech and the case is going nowhere. If the court held otherwise every time someone was bothered or outraged by a book there'd be an issue. Nah.
"50's song structures were inadequate to those unfettered soul voices"- G M seems to agree with this as a statement about the real world (I haven't read the novel so I don't know how this statement functions in it). But when I think of all the great Black singers who worked within
the typical doo-wop progression, or the 32 Bar song structure, or the 12 Bar Blues,or Gospel song formats that were in place then - the statement sounds more like an ideological gesture than an observation of an empirical reality. Everyone knows how so many ( all ) were ripped off by labels ,managers, publishers,and anyone else who could -but that wasn't the fault of the song structures. Would, for example, Tony Williams of The Platters,or B B King or Dinah Washington have been better off-created better music-working within the freer song structures of contemporary Hip Hop,or Dance Music - I don't think so -those formats would have buried their voices within forms that mostly don't require great voices. Always,with G M ,a great review that piques my interest in the book
In my last letter should be "a nick on her." Thanks.
The devil had nothing to do with it. See she's fine, wholesome and without a nick in her. That's the Lord's work if he's around.
Diane thought it was nothing but watch out for the husband. Good advice.
Its the Macgufan that drove this project.
Everybody in Milford, CT are just fine except for a few bad colds..
I could dance the Watusi for her here in our living room and that wouldn't be the devil neither.
Could you consider overcoming this obsession and raising your spirits just a little bit?
Greil, Ty just deleted a couple of my posts. Here they are-
Violence is physical. She was not touched. The comparisons are inapt and don't make common sense.
I'm referring to Stacy in our outside project who wasn't touched and comparisons to Altamont and The Perfect Neighbor which comparisons to physical violence don't wash .Its possible you can find a statute dealing with emotional distress but writing and typing are covered by freedom of speech and the case is going nowhere. If the court held otherwise every time someone was bothered or outraged by a book there'd be an issue. Nah.
"50's song structures were inadequate to those unfettered soul voices"- G M seems to agree with this as a statement about the real world (I haven't read the novel so I don't know how this statement functions in it). But when I think of all the great Black singers who worked within
the typical doo-wop progression, or the 32 Bar song structure, or the 12 Bar Blues,or Gospel song formats that were in place then - the statement sounds more like an ideological gesture than an observation of an empirical reality. Everyone knows how so many ( all ) were ripped off by labels ,managers, publishers,and anyone else who could -but that wasn't the fault of the song structures. Would, for example, Tony Williams of The Platters,or B B King or Dinah Washington have been better off-created better music-working within the freer song structures of contemporary Hip Hop,or Dance Music - I don't think so -those formats would have buried their voices within forms that mostly don't require great voices. Always,with G M ,a great review that piques my interest in the book