{"id":7583,"date":"2014-11-15T16:21:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T16:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/11\/15\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-beethoven-billy-bob-and-peggy-lee-2\/"},"modified":"2014-11-15T16:21:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T16:21:06","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-beethoven-billy-bob-and-peggy-lee-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/11\/15\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-beethoven-billy-bob-and-peggy-lee-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Beethoven, Billy Bob, and Peggy Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><em>The Man Who Wasn&#39;t There<\/em> is one of my favorite movies, and the best of Ludwig van Beethoven is as good as classical music gets.&#0160; So enjoy the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PE4Cv1KwaiM\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">First Movement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"> of the Moonlight Sonata to the masterful cinematography of the Coen Brothers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VLXW9qpLVic&amp;feature=related\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"> is the final scene of the movie.&#0160; Ed Crane&#39;s last words:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">I don&#39;t know where I&#39;m being taken.&#0160; I don&#39;t know what I&#39;ll find beyond the earth and sky.&#0160; But I am not afraid to go.&#0160; Maybe the things I don&#39;t understand will be clearer there, like when a fog blows away.&#0160; Maybe Doris will be there. And maybe there I can tell her all those things they don&#39;t have words for here.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb07ac8450970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Peggy lee\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb07ac8450970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb07ac8450970d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Peggy lee\" \/><\/a>That is the way I see death, as an adventure into a&#0160;dimension, into &quot;the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns,&quot; in which we might come to understand what we cannot understand here, a movement from night and&#0160;fog into the clear light of day.&#0160; It is a strange idea, I admit, the idea that only by dying can one come into possession of essential knowledge.&#0160; But no more&#0160;strange &#0160;than the idea that&#0160; death leaves the apparent absurdity of our existence unredeemed, a sentiment expressed in Peggy Lee&#39;s 1970 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3sWTnsemkIs\" target=\"_self\">Is That All There is?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Man Who Wasn&#39;t There is one of my favorite movies, and the best of Ludwig van Beethoven is as good as classical music gets.&#0160; 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.&#0160; Ed Crane&#39;s last words: I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/11\/15\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-beethoven-billy-bob-and-peggy-lee-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies: Beethoven, Billy Bob, and Peggy Lee&#8221;<\/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-7583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583","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=7583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}