tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827071479314474893.post284225136555090752..comments2024-01-31T22:47:47.791-08:00Comments on Anglocat on the Prowl: Confessions of a Continuator: Immune to Your ConsultationsAnglocathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03218740053628978255noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827071479314474893.post-21088989804265883122016-01-17T17:02:04.703-08:002016-01-17T17:02:04.703-08:00But I should have noted my admiration for A.P. Her...But I should have noted my admiration for A.P. Herbert, and the verse you chose! Please put it down to a certain degree of surprised anger that the Primates' "gathering" turned into a disciplinary meeting absent any authority to do so. Anglocathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03218740053628978255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827071479314474893.post-12557140930887918022016-01-15T04:05:25.533-08:002016-01-15T04:05:25.533-08:00And had Welby said that, there would have been no ...And had Welby said that, there would have been no irony. But his claim to have "relish[ed] what [Bowie] was," referring to his gender-flouting, transgressive early days, within two days of cementing the Communion around the Primates who actively advocate for imprisonment of people like Bowie, well--that's a bitter irony.Anglocathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03218740053628978255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827071479314474893.post-22178894358331729802016-01-14T21:27:41.721-08:002016-01-14T21:27:41.721-08:00I don't find it particularly surprising that a...I don't find it particularly surprising that an archbishop should appreciate and enjoy an artist's work without being entirely enthusiastic about his "manner of life." <br /><br />As A.P. Herbert, of "Uncommon Law" fame, noted some time ago, <br /><br />It is a very curious fact<br />That those who write or paint or act,<br />Compose or etch,<br />Or sculpt or sketch,<br />Or practice things like pottery,<br />Have not got consciences like us,<br />Are frankly not monogamous;<br />Their moral tone is all their own,<br />Their love-affairs a lottery.<br />It’s hard to say why writing verse<br />Should terminate in drink or worse,<br />Why flutes and harps<br />And flats and sharps<br />Should lead to indiscretions;<br />But if you read the Poets’ Lives<br />You’ll find the number of their wives<br />In fact exceeds<br />The normal needs<br />Of almost all professions.<br /><br />Now in fact I don't think the number of Mr. Bowie's wives actually exceeded the norm. And I'm sure that others know better than I whether the personae represented the man or merely masks. But I like what I know of his music (pretty limited to the "greatest hits" list, I'm afraid), and can't help liking the man who fell to earth. And of course every man's death diminishes me.rick allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612435616018593956noreply@blogger.com