Someone should have told me that all I needed to do to get Peter Miller's references was to read Vogue. And it's not even a current issue. The one with Penelope Cruz on the cover from spring break cos the only justification for buying these is being stuck on a plane. Talk about guilty pleasures. Fashion photography is truly stunning sometimes. Like when W first came out, I remember this two-page add with a woman striding across a room of mirrors at odd angles wearing a rose colored gown. It was splendid! I wish I had saved it. Actually, I don't know much more than I did before about Capt. Corelli. And what I said gives the false impression that Peter Miller's references are easy to get. But everyone knows the contrary is true. No, please don't bother to explain. Listen to this excerpt from an article about Renee Fleming: "Music is erotic for the listener - and for the singer, according to Fleming: 'My real taste, my real sensibility, lies with music that I feel is sexy.' The quality she finds most sensual is 'pulling'. Think of taffy or isometrics or a suspension bridge. The sung lines stretch, to the breaking point; the soprano's voice must sound inhumanly clear, shimmering, strong, and yet vulnerable. The phrases - especially in Strauss or in Rachmaninoff - are elongated over harmonies whose resolution is postponed, the dissonances lovingly retained rather than rejected." Gosh, what amazing writing, esp. that last sentence! And what a lovely, complex thing to describe! (There's something reckless about how Alasdair C deliberately writes hard vocal parts. Stuart's falsetto seems to come so naturally. And others write for 'glamorous microphone dames'.) I don't have any evidence that Ferdinand said "'Love' is a sign." It seems like something he could have said. But when Robert sings "Love is a sign", he must be using the word 'love' (rather then just mentioning it). So then how is love a sign? If love is a sign, then what we mean by the word 'love' must bear an arbitrary relation to whatever it stands for. In other words, love must be an abstraction, established by convention, that lumps together things like green and violet blue waterlilies, snow cuffs... +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+