Libertarian and Anarchist

"I don't trust anyone who doesn't have a bit of the libertarian and the anarchist within them.  Someone who says: 'I don't make the presumption that those in charge know better than I do, I also don't make the presumption that they have the right to tell me what to do, unless they repeatedly have earned that right.'"  -Christopher Hitchens

More Debussy...

“Those around me persist in not understanding that I have never been able to live in a real world of people and things.” -Debussy

Save Opera!

Ring on DVD

https://mostlyopera.blogspot.com/2009/01/nibelungen-ring-on-dvd.html

Wow.

https://www.operanorth.co.uk/the-ring-cycle/

Debussy and I share the same "Religion"

"I do not practise religion in accordance with the sacred rites. I have made mysterious Nature my religion. I do not believe that a man is any nearer to God for being clad in priestly garments, nor that one place in a town is better adapted to meditation than another. When I gaze at a sunset sky and spend hours contemplating its marvelous ever-changing beauty, an extraordinary emotion overwhelms me. Nature in all its vastness is truthfully reflected in my sincere though feeble soul. Around me are the trees stretching up their branches to the skies, the perfumed flowers gladdening the meadow, the gentle grass-carpetted earth, … and my hands unconsciously assume an attitude of adoration. … To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer."

-Claude Debussy

Bertrand Russell

"Always the skeptical intellect, when I have most wished it silent, has whispered doubts to me, has cut me off from the facile enthusiasms of others, and has transported me into a desolate solitude. ... [M]y most profound feelings have remained always solitary and have found in human things no companionship. The sea, the starts, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best..."

  -Bertrand Russell