Here is a great favorite of mine, Glenn Gould, playing Beethoven's Tempest Sonata. If you want to skip his talking about Beethoven, start at 5 minutes 33 seconds.
Years from now, when I'm gone and my library becomes world famous, my books will become priceless collectors items. I can imagine the conversations:
"Are you sure this is an authentic Wilfong?"
"Oh yes! Look at the trademark bird nibbles on the dust jacket."
Officers and Gentlemen by Evelyn WaughMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is the second in a trilogy about the adventures of Guy Crouchback who, although older than the average soldier, wants to fight for his country.
As the blurb says, he has been ousted from his previous company due to some mishap, of which cause was due to his incompetence, and here he is on a Scottish island, in training with another cast of characters who could pass as Keystone Cops or the police force in Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. It all seems rather funny, until they go to the island of Crete and put their training to practice. Then the butchery of real war pay its toll. Much of this is due to the idiocy of the leadership, making obtuse decisions.
I'm sure that is an accurate description of Waugh's view of war.
The story line, seemed sketchy to me and tended to bounce from character to character. I felt like I was watching a Soap Opera where the scenes and isolated plots of each character, while interesting and funny, had no connecting thread to each other.
The dialogue and the writing was sharp and witty, but overall, I preferred the first book, Men at Arms.
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