Shaded

Do the horses know that they are being shaded by the nave and the transept of one of the finest early baroque cathedrals north of the Alps? Is there a different feel to this particular shade?

Freude

Kajetanerkirche, Salzburg, reflected through a poetic inn window; it was different in Karajan's years at the Salzburg Festival: photos of Karajan and his dramatic hairstyle, and mostly of other performing artists were to be found in between the red and golden Mozarts of the various 'Mozartkugel'-manufacturers – these real, original, most unique, etc. sweet balls came to be associated with Salzburg as much as those soufflé triple mountains that served as a dessert are intended to give innocent tourists heart attacks from overeating: Salzburger Nockerl!

Revolution?

I wonder, what happened here: did somebody try to cover old graffiti with black paint – to give new ones a black ground? Interesting effect anyway.

Whoever is trying to keep track – this is the third Salzburg city bridge appearing under this label.

Stolpersteine / Memory Stones

A "Stolperstein", ready to be set into the pavement in front of a residential house in Salzburg city. The plaque carries the name and life data of a woman who, supposedly mentally ill was deported to Hartheim, an institution that was to become a center for the eradication of human life in the Nazis' 'euthanasia' program.

German artist Günter Demnig together with local historians, Dachverband Salzburger Kulturstätten, the Jewish community in Salzburg, and supported by the city of Salzburg is responsible for this act of public remembering: Stolpersteine.

I'm just a soul

whose intentions are good, oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood!

Just to remind myself that this was not meant to be a blog just for theatre experts and literary scholars; I just love those LYNX and discussions about 'Idylle'.

Misunderstood: I would take a long lost live version by Elvis Costello and the Attractions, with a horn section for the tour, with a politically incorrect introduction for background singer Caron Wheeler (not quoted here, mind you! this is a serious blog; no political or genderwise incorrectness; wo kämen wir denn da hin!), and a groove that still haunts me after about 20 years.

Handke / Beckett revisited

Thanks to mikerol69 for yet another link! Have a look there http://begleitschreiben.twoday.net/stories/5872998/#5876718

You might want to give parsley at the market a second look and think about the aesthetic concept of 'Idylle'. But you needn't, if you don't like to. That's one good thing about the arts, especially if you are not Samuel Beckett (luckily, otherwise you wouldn't read this!) or his publishers and theatre rights-holders.

Der Zuschauer genießt die Freiheit, die Dinge etwas bedeuten zu lassen. So oder ähnlich (wer war das noch mal? jedenfalls Französisch, poststrukturalistisch und ganz kantianisch, falls das heutzutage noch jemanden interessiert); jedenfalls 'etwas' bedeuten lassen, und auch etwas ganz anderes, und dann vielleicht noch was. Und jedenfalls nicht teleologisch und schon gar nicht so, dass wir am Ende keine Kunst mehr brauchen, weil wir ja 'befreit' sind, halbtags arbeiten und am Nachmittag jagen und fischen gehen; das wäre ja auch in Ordnung (soll ich hier vielleicht das altmodische Wort 'Revolution' einbringen, oder wird der Blog dann automatisch gesperrt?), dass wir aber auch dann noch idyllisch in der Nase bohren, 'romantisch glotzen' und aus den Gedichten Heines erst Zigaretten drehen, wenn wir sie auswendig können, darauf lege ich schon Wert.

Oops, slipped into German there; well 'Kraut' as well as 'goethen sprachen'. It's okay ...

Oops again, with 'Heine' and 'revolution' some more German is breaking loose; could be a lynx on the leap:

Wir hatten doch mit Heine 'ausgefunden, dass die Erde gross genug' für alle ist; da stand auch was von 'Rosen und Zuckererbsen' nicht minder, und selbstverständlich Heine-Gedichte und 'Idylle' – und gottverdammt, das klappt immer noch nicht!

Sorry for the language; should be a little more uptight as an academic from Salzburg city.

Seattle, Washington

Received some LYNX last night, found them connected to Seattle, Washington, home of so much great music, even long before Grunge became ready for the top forty – which annoyed some high-brow listeners to 'independent' music like myself ... Well, remembering that great movie, Last Days, let's not be arrogant, let's simply listen.

And here's my hello to Seattle, Washington, where I imagine there may be great, cold winters ;–). Here it was late in spring, on the way back from rainy Venice, and yours truly just did not want to take those long tunnels from Carinthia back to Salzburg province. So, it's about 1,650m/ 5,000 ft. above sea level close to the ski resort of Obertauern, a cigarette break on a long transfer.