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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 2003/11

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:01:30 -0500

"The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner=E2=80=99s Siegfrie
d... the
music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of
(provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de
vivre which
was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century o
f
adolescence."

-Philippe Ari=C3=A9s (20th century) French historian
Centuries of Childhood, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1962)