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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000092.txt from 2003/03

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] [Dblrd-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 23:24:01 -0500

"The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god.

There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch

of hellfire in his mirth."

H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880=E2=80=931956) U.S. journalist, critic
>From "Prejudices," Fifth Series (1927), Selected Prejudices, p. 48