Beethoven Rousseau and Other Things

[jazzy_dave]

Today i managed to get two mobile phone shop visits done, one in Maidstone and one in Ashford, and then did a charity shop visit in Canterbury.

 The weather as a whole turned out to be quite sunny and dry. I took this pic of a monument in Maidstone.



The bus journey from Ashford to Canterbury seemed to take ages.Held up a few times crossing the barriers at the train stations in Wye and Chartham. Quite exacerbating.

In Canterbury bought a box set of Beethoven Symphonies and Overtures , as played by Karajan, six discs for six quid.



Also, I purchased two books, including another Rousseau discourse, whom i studied in the second level O.U. course, "The Enlightenment" many years ago.



Strange that i found a couple of books by  ousseau in the last few days.

Comments

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I like this cover of "Tales of the City". It's distinctive!

[ba1126.livejournal.com]

That monument looks very much like one in a section of Boston called Jamaica Plain. It has three figures; three brothers who all died in W W I.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Looks like a beautiful day. :)

YAY for Tales of the City. :)
Hugs, Jon

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

I had to do a PowerPoint presentation on Rousseau only a week ago. A complex, but brilliant man - he was all for the advancement education and championed the cause for children's rights, underlining their creative talents. It is therefore very much at odds with the fact he was a crap tutor and an abysmal father, who carted his kids to an orphanage and left them there (even if in later years he tried to track down where they were placed - bit late in the day).

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Dear old Karajan- everyone's favourite unreconstructed old Nazi!

Damn good set of recordings those, though!

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

True, but wonderful recordings.

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

The weather looks very nice in your photo.

That looks like another very interesting Rousseau book, too!

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

The Maupin Tales are still lovely reads, it seems to me, though that city the tales are of is long, long, long gone. Sigh.

Love, c.