Jeff Dunn wrote:

>I am writing now not about the bright lights of success, the shining
>glories of a life, but the bitter end.  I am speaking of the moments of
>sad summation, when one looks back--or imagines oneself looking back--at
>a life of promise incomplete.

Three works which are guaranteed to cure all optimism everywhere:

* Ninth Symphony by Malcolm Arnold - Lento (fourth movement).  The last
- & most despairing - of Arnold's Waste Land pastorales.

* First Symphony by ZHU Jian'er -!?  (third movement).  A disjointed
nightmare in sound, from ZHU's Cultural Revolution symphony.

* Canto General by Mikis Theodorakis - America Insurrecta (finale).
A lament for an American Revolution that never took place.

Razor blades available on request....

Live in peace
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