A Dark and Stormy Night
Summary
Celebrated cameos from the past come to mind -- Turner lashed to the mast to experience to the full every judder of a tempest at sea (and the possible -- it's not clear whether this is a biographer's wish-fulfilment or even the composer's own -- replication of this by the youthful Debussy); Beethoven's defiant exultation in the teeth of lightning and thunder; Wordsworth pursued by the menacing reflection of mountains in the lake; Ibsen pursued by an avalanche more spiritual than actual;...
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A Dark and Stormy Night
'Where were you when they crucified the Lord?'; when news of Waterloo was brought, or the Mutiny, or the Charge of the Light Brigade, or the death of Victoria?
Thence into living memory and universal communications -- when Edward VIII announced his abdicatio...See the full content of this document