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One of the hidden benefits of reading old books is that they rescue you from the arrogance of the present.
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The ancient Carnyx was a wind instrument of the Iron Age Celts, used between 200 BC and AD 200. It was used in warfare, to incite troops to battle and intimidate opponents.
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“Being a fogey in those days was, in fact, a form of rebellion against the boring conformity of pop culture — against the unthinking Left-wingery of the university common rooms & the bigwigs in the art world, who were obsessed only with being modern & progressive.”
A.N. Wilson
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Isadora Duncan at the Theater of Dionysus, Athens, 1903
- Photograph by Raymond Duncan
Between May and August 1904, Isadora was in Bayreuth, having been invited by Cosima Wagner to choreograph and dance in the Bacchanale of her 1891 production of "Tannhäuser".
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I still laugh at the inability of liberal actor and director Jonathan Miller to look at Enoch Powell at any point during their debate. No doubt Miller was "disgusted" by Powell, but I'm sure the real explanation is lack of physical courage.
