Doublereed Archive - Posting 000064.txt from 2004/01

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:00:27 -0500

"She played Bach. I do not know the names of the pieces, but I recognized the
stiff ceremonial of the frenchified little German courts and the sober,
thrifty comfort of the burghers, and the dancing on the village green, the green
trees that looked like Christmas trees, and the sunlight on the wide German
country, and a tender cosiness; and in my nostrils there was a warm scent of the
soil and I was conscious of a sturdy strength that seemed to have its roots
deep in mother earth, and of an elemental power that was timeless and had no home
in space."

-W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British novelist, playwright, short-story
writer, The Alien Corn