Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/19
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Thanks for that information Guy. (Did not know any history behind it all).
And I can spot the soundtrack anywhere anytime - it certainly stuck in my
mind.
(it's replaying in my head as I write - very tranquil)
Karina
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From: "Guy Bennett" <gbennett@lainet.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: David Hamilton
> >Is David Hamilton still working? Gosh, his photographs take me back to
me
> >teenage years - I admired them then.
> >(Also remember seeing Bilitis).
> >
> >Karina
>
>
> I saw "Bilitis" too, which sent me to the book ("Les Chansons de Bilitis"
> by Pierre Lou˙s), which is a wonderful collection of pseudo-Sapphic prose
> poems by a supposed contemporary of that most famous of Lesbian lyric
> poets. Lou˙s claimed to have unearthed the poems during an archeological
> dig in a 6th c. BC tomb in Greece, later translating them and publishing
> them in France. He fooled scholars, who believed his tale, later
> embarrassing them when he admited that he was the real author of the poems
> in question.
>
> Debussy set some of them to music, twice: three of them for soprano and
> solo piano, then thirteen of them to be read by an actress accompanied by
a
> small ensemble of two flutes, two harps + celeste. (Actually, the latter
> piece was completed by Boulez; Debussy died before finishing it.)
>
> Ah, never underestimate the inspirational might of long dead Lesbian
poets!
>
> Guy
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