(Well,
after doing six weeks of blogging about my crazy big brother Tom -- may be rest
in peace, and I’ll be working on finishing a book-length version of that story,
with his writings interspersed -- I said I’d return to the original blog’s
purpose: my survival jobs through the years. Along the way, many other interesting things happened. . .
like living in NYC, being part of the CBGB music scene, moving to England,
visiting Paris, etc. It’s been
QUITE the life -- and it’s not even half over yet!)
This
point is inarguable: Alan Rickman possesses the all-time greatest speaking
voice. And to think, when in drama
school, his teacher told him he’d better work on his voice -- that it was one
of his detriments! Will the
mundane ironies in this world ever cease?
Actually,
there is nothing mundane about realizing, in hindsight, that Alan Rickman’s
drama teacher was just so, so wrong.
That gives me such hope: that anybody who told somebody else they’re
misguided or some sort of “loser” might well be so, so wrong.
How
about Einstein? He was rumored to
have been called a stupid kid. . . and I’m sure there are so many other
examples. . . so all right, you can laugh at me for thinking I’m going to write
books and songs of greater consequence . . . but I’ll just remember Einstein and Rickman. . .
But
I digress. In this blog, I thank
my fates for taking me to London and living amongst the English where I learned
firsthand their ways and culture.
The pub lifestyle, the unspoken class system, the humor, humanity, and
keen minds that could knife through a situation with panache and grace (and
neat sounding accents).
Basically,
I was ready with a deeper understanding of those limeys and their ways when
“Absolutely Fabulous” came out.
And when the Harry Potter series exploded on the page and on the screen? Yup. ‘Twas I who realized that Harry’s nemesis, Draco Malfoy, was
at times putting on a lower-class accent so as to mitigate his ruling class
upbringing. . .
“Slumming,”
as it were.
Sigh. There’ll always be an England. . . in
the coney island of the mind.
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