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ricardienne) wrote2009-06-19 03:01 pm
ricardienne) wrote2009-06-19 03:01 pm
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A year or so ago, I dozed off during the Heiligedankesang during a performance of Beethoven's op. 132, and had one of those dreams where you can still hear everything going on around you. It was a dream about Tacitus at Agricola's death-bed.
Anyway, that movement always moves me to tears, as does Thrasea's death-scene in the Annals. iTunes brought them together just now, and now I certainly am not going to be able to disassociate Heiligedankesang from this sort of thing. (Also: I am reading someone's dissertation, which goes sort of the opposite direction from what I'm doing, but makes me wish I weren't. Because, damn it, I *WANT* subversive!Tacitus. I'm just not convinced that he's there.)
Anyway, that movement always moves me to tears, as does Thrasea's death-scene in the Annals. iTunes brought them together just now, and now I certainly am not going to be able to disassociate Heiligedankesang from this sort of thing. (Also: I am reading someone's dissertation, which goes sort of the opposite direction from what I'm doing, but makes me wish I weren't. Because, damn it, I *WANT* subversive!Tacitus. I'm just not convinced that he's there.)