Klarinet Archive - Posting 000044.txt from 2000/06

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinets in fiction
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 01:22:34 -0400

This is what happens when a clarinet player starts talking about dark
tone. They join forces with the dark side and become vampires.

LeliaLoban@-----.com wrote:
>
> On another thread, I said I couldn't remember any fiction about clarinet
> players. Color my face red! I not only know of an excellent novel about a
> clarinetist, *I reviewed it*! I was seriously ill at the time and the fact
> that I failed to remember the book reflects on me, not on Due's writing.
>
> The novel is a dark fantasy, _My Soul to Keep_, by Tananarive Due (New York:
> HarperCollins, 1997 hb; it came out in ppb later). One of the protagonists,
> Dawit (now known as David) is a variant on the world-weary vampire. This
> one, an Abyssinian atheist, became immortal by receiving a sacrament of the
> blood of Jesus at Golgotha. In one of his recent human guises, David is a
> well- known jazz clarinetist.
>
> I gave this novel a strongly positive review in _Necrofile_ #28 (Spring 1998,
> p. 18), although my review was more critical than the others I read. I
> complained mainly about too many coincidences driving the plot and about
> inaccuracies in the descriptions of clarinet playing. (The clarinet-playing
> scenes are brief enough not to spoil the book for clarinet players, IMHO, but
> I found these scenes distracting.) I hastened to add, however, that "the
> strengths of the book far outweigh the weaknesses. . . . . These people live
> and breathe, and all, including the monsters, evoke the reader's sympathy.
> Without ever resorting to the Slash-O-Matic school of horror writing ('It
> slices! It dices!'), Due also knows how to make a reader's skin crawl." The
> novel comes to a particularly satisfying conclusion.
>
> Lelia
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Spike: If every vampire who said he was at the Crucifixion was actually
> there, it would have been
> like Woodstock.
> --Episode "Inca Mummy Girl" on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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