Klarinet Archive - Posting 000981.txt from 1998/09

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] The clarinet in literature
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 01:26:21 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.53
> Subj: [kl] The clarinet in literature

> Dan Leeson wrote:
> >>In the fiction novel, "The Boys From Brazil" (which deals with the cloning
> of Adolf Hitler), one of the young Hitler clones plays clarinet very well.
> This phenomenon was duplicated in the film when the Wiesenthal character shows
> up at the door and the young boy comes to the door with his clarinet in
> hand.>>
>
> I wonder if Ira Levin intended this scene as a sly way of suggesting that "the
> truth will out," as something hidden bobs to the surface of the gene pool.
> Hitler (the real one) concealed that he had more Jewish blood than many of the
> people he exterminated. Maybe it manifests itself in his fictional clone as
> this talent for clarinet-playing. Today, Itzhak Perlman has revived the
> violin and the ensemble for klezmer music, but in the early 20th c. (and still
> in 1976, when Levin wrote his novel), the stereotypical klezmer musician was
> an itenerant clarinetist.

This is way off topic but I had to state that there is no evidence to support
the conjecture about Hitler's genealogy. Lelia, where did you get such
information? What is the source of it?

>
> Lelia
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> "At a mass meeting in Berlin, Adolf Hitler ... shrieked,
> 'And who is responsible for all our troubles?!'
> "Ben Cohen shouted, 'The bicycle riders!'
> Hitler looked up, astonished. 'Why the bicycle riders?'
> "'Why the Jews?' replied Cohen."
> --Leo Rosten, _The Joys of Yiddish_
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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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