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Apr 1, 2008 10:29 am
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Yes, I quite agree with Prue's recommendation. We saw the play last week and it was splendid. Let's hope it does transfer to the West End. Stephen Holden ... ...
Stephen Holden
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Apr 1, 2008 11:56 am
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Once again AP Listers have clarified what to me at least has been obscure, for which many thanks. The identification of the tritone as an augmented fourth is...
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Apr 1, 2008 2:30 pm
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In a message dated 31/03/2008 14:50:36 GMT Standard Time, manleyjm@... writes: Is it possible that Moreland would have had the pro-polyphonal position of ...
colneis@...
Apr 1, 2008 3:34 pm
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A rather limited response to two of Merja's questions, if I may. ... In clinical terms, no. At least AP would not be regarded by contemporary psychiatry as...
Julian Allason
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Apr 1, 2008 5:04 pm
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Julian, would you please expand upon your comment below? Examples where Dickens and Trollope could have 'gone into greater depth' - if that's what's missing -...
Jeanne V. Reed
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Apr 1, 2008 5:22 pm
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Either I've missed the point or am very stupid, or both; but, I feel it is very difficult to diagnose a person (fictional or otherwise) without having met...
... Yes please. I am especially interested in Trollope who if he does not deal with melancholy much certainly has at least one great and wholly convincing ...
Robert Tresman writes: "I feel it is very difficult to diagnose a person (fictional or otherwise) without having met them: whether or not in a professional...
Ellen Jordan
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Apr 2, 2008 2:56 am
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... if ... not deal ... convincing ... Trollope depicted at least three convincingly melancholy characters. Robert Kennedy in the Palliser novels became...
There is a book by Bergen Evans, The Psychiatry of Robert Burton, which makes the case that Burton anticipate much of modern psychoanalytic theory (and...
The Diamond Sculls The other day as I was rereading A Question of Upbringing, I came across the passage which refers to Le Bas winning The Diamond Sculls at...
What an interesting question, John! ... In BDFR Le Bas is said then to be in his eighties; according to Spurling this would have been in late 1947. Which...
The Vanity Fair portraits tell us that Nickalls (G) was not a commercial success, but did coach a number of teams including Yale. Nothing in the history on the...
Thanks to all for some illuminating comments on this subject. Quite apart from Merja's orginal question about the role of melancholy, the mental health of AP's...
Julian Allason
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Apr 2, 2008 5:28 pm
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On 28 March, I received a message from William Warren regarding my earlier post "Trivia Question: Havana in the Early Warning." After reading my post, Bill...
There's a new six part dramatisation of Dance starting on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow (Sunday 6 April) at 1500hrs UK time. Episodes are to be repeated the following...
Sunday 6 April A Dance to the Music of Time Dramatised by Michael Butt from the novels of Anthony Powell 1/6. Sex In their final years at school, Nicholas...
Mike Jay asked: 1st episode = "Sex" ??? Oh my gawd!! I am sharing your grief and exasperation! Actually - looks like 'the narrator' is not nick !!?? Not...
... Because they know everything there is to know about it; they're the BBC. Why would they want to consult some half-baked self-interest group with a biassed...
Sorry, I'm too old and too cynical! Keith - since my question was of the rhetorical kind, no doubt recognized, I donīt expect me to take your self-abasement...
since my question was of the rhetorical kind, no doubt recognized, I donīt expect me to take your self-abasement too seriously. Peter Peter, Is that your...
Edwin Bock
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Apr 6, 2008 3:41 pm
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Ed, Before: since commenting, my narrating me. Before last time: my experiencing one. (Had anybody tuned in?) Peter ... Von: aplist@yahoogroups.com...
... Yes, I started listening on the BBC Radio 4 internet feed, but lost it after about 15 minutes, so I'll have to record again from "listen Again". However...
Sorry to say - it didn't get better. I feel for anyone listening in who may never have read AP and was wondering what Dance would be like. They would have been...
In a message dated 06/04/2008 19:16:25 GMT Standard Time, michaelrichardjay@... writes: This production was like a Hobbesian life - nasty , short and...
I'm looking forward to the scene where a leather clad Tuffy Weedon 'deals' with Stringham in Sir Magnus' dungeon. No doubt Widmerpool and Jimmy Stripling will...
Yes, it was quite crudely done with fairly large chunks of narration and dialogue that were not taken from AP at all, and were made up presumably in an attempt...