From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=66">willtobe1</a><BR>
Date: 26 August 2006<P>

Savannah Haze, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2006.08.26.11.22.24487">The Songwriter</a>:<BR>
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"Mr. Vonnegut's diction," indeed!  *mmm-mwah!*  From him became lodged in my head one of the most melodic lines in the language: "to turn belly up -- to go bang in the noonday sun" (Breakfast of Champions), a beauty all the more startling for having risen, as it did, from the carcass of rotting fish.  But then Music and Meaning have always lived separate lives for me...<BR>

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