{"id":2355,"date":"2021-11-06T17:39:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T17:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/06\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-beethoven-billy-bob-and-peggy-lee\/"},"modified":"2021-11-06T17:39:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T17:39:05","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-beethoven-billy-bob-and-peggy-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/06\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-beethoven-billy-bob-and-peggy-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Beethoven, Billy Bob, and Peggy Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Man Who Wasn't There<\/em> is one of my favorite movies, and the best of Ludwig van Beethoven is as good as classical music gets.  So enjoy the First Movement<\/a> of the Moonlight Sonata to the masterful cinematography of the Coen Brothers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is the final scene of the movie.  Ed Crane's last words:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I don't know where I'm being taken.  I don't know what I'll find beyond the earth and sky.  But I am not afraid to go.  Maybe the things I don't understand will be clearer there, like when a fog blows away.  Maybe Doris will be there. And maybe there I can tell her all those things they don't have words for here.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Peggy<\/a>That is the way I see death, as an adventure into a dimension, into "the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns," in which we might come to understand what we cannot understand here, a movement from night and fog into the clear light of day.  It is a strange idea, I admit, the idea that only by dying can one come into possession of essential knowledge.  But no more strange  than the idea that  death leaves the apparent absurdity of our existence unredeemed, a sentiment expressed in Peggy Lee's 1970 Is That All There is?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Man Who Wasn't There is one of my favorite movies, and the best of Ludwig van Beethoven is as good as classical music gets.  So enjoy the First Movement of the Moonlight Sonata to the masterful cinematography of the Coen Brothers. Here is the final scene of the movie.  Ed Crane's last words: I don't know where I'm … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Beethoven, Billy Bob, and Peggy Lee”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}