Re: [LAU] A bright sparkly little tune from me

  > Dave Phillips <dlphillips@email-addr-hidden> wrote: >> >> I must be perverse. As I listened to this (very fine) tune I kept >> thinking about the horror movie "Carnival Of Souls"... >>    > > Thanks Dave, although I find it slightly disturbing that you sensed > something not entirely happy in the tune. You're actually one of three > people who have said that, and I can't for the life of me understand how > that should come about. > To my ears the form and instrumentation are reminiscent of music for a > carousel or carnival. In my psyche (admittedly influenced by 'way too > many horror and sf books & movies from the 50s and 60s) there's > something inherently surreal or even menacing about such things and > events. Perhaps it's a cultural conditioning ? It was definitely early conditioning in my life regarding circus clowns. As a very sickly infant and young child, I quickly learned to associate circus clowns with intense, physical pain. The pediatrician had circus clown portraits on the walls of his waiting rooms, hallways, and patient rooms.  Everywhere I went and waited, there were circus clowns.  Then came the treatments and pain, with those circus clowns watching and laughing. To this day (I'm 56), I don't find anything remotely joyful or comforting about circus clowns.  They were the stuff of nightmares to me. Amazed and just realizing how much I'm *still* upset with circus clowns, Stephen.

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Received on Tue Oct 27 08:15:01 2009