I liked the section about the Dodo bird. And I liked the section about English candy. And a madcap drive where Jessica is topless in the car. I could see those three as movie scenes.
On 129 there are 3 musicians mentioned and I listened to the choral music all morning:
Thomas Tallus (1505–1585) was an English composer of High Renaissance music. His compositions are primarily vocal, and he occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music. Tallis is considered one of England's greatest composers, and is honoured for his original voice in English musicianship. Tallis served at court as a composer and performer for Henry VIII,[8] Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. (Spotify)
Henry Purcell (1659–1695) Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Generally considered among the greatest English opera composers, Purcell is often linked with John Dunstaple and William Byrd as England's most important early music composers. No later native-born English composer approached his fame until Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, William Walton and Benjamin Britten in the 20th century. (Spotify)
Henry Suso (1295–1366) wrote perhaps In dulci jubilo. Spotify has a playlist. Early in his life, Suso subjected himself to extreme forms of mortifications; later on he reported that God told him they were unnecessary.
He he is also notable for defending Meister Eckhart's legacy after Eckhart was posthumously condemned for heresy in 1329. The central theme of Eckhart's German sermons is the presence of God in the individual soul, and the dignity of the soul of the just man. Josiah Royce saw Eckhart as a representative example of 13th and 14th century Catholic mystics "on the verge of pronounced heresy" but without original philosophical opinions. Royce attributes Eckhart's reputation for originality to the fact that he translated scholastic philosophy from Latin into German, and that Eckhart wrote about his speculations in German instead of Latin. His speculative mysticism it that there is even at the centre of this omniscience the necessary mystery of the divine essence itself.
On page 132 he mentions the following operas: Rigoletto, La bohème, two of my favorite operas.
Gerd von Rundstedt (1875 –1953) was in the German military: In the invasion of the Soviet Union, he commanded Army Group South, responsible for the largest encirclement in history, the Battle of Kiev. Though aware of the various plots to depose Hitler, Rundstedt neither supported nor reported them. Rundstedt entered the Prussian Army in 1892.
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