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<font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font><br><b> <font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">"I take a powder right after
a concert because I have
this kook contingent who follow me from place to place, and some of them
are really teetering on the balance." <br>- Glenn Gould</font></b><br><br> <font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> "Take a
powder" is old slang for leave quickly, disappear, get away fast. </font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br> I recently sent the following to another member of this List:<br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Bazzana
(Wondrous Strange) quotes Gould's unsent
'personal ad' on pages 321, 322, "Wanted: Friendly, companionably
reclusive, alcoholically abstemious, tirelessly talkative, ..." etc etc
which ends with the address <u>"Avalon Peninsula, Nfld."</u> BUT in Mesaros' book
the same 'personal ad' is quoted on pages 341,342 with the address:
<u>"Anaton Penisslow Nfld." </u>Can you believe that? I'm afraid that the
Freudian Dr. Mesaros made an erroneous Big Penis out of a geographical feature and <u>Gould's notoriously tricky handwriting: </u><i><b><br> </b></i><b>
From Avalon Peninsula to Anaton Penisslow! </b><i><b><br></b></i>More than most I love anagrams, wordplay, double-entendre, homophones,<br>The London Daily Telegraph cryptic crossword and I can assure you that<br>Mesaros is a clumsy wordsmith at best - howlers ahoy matey.<br> Mesaros really needed a proofreader and a fact checker. Another case in
point is an entry in a Gould 'notebook' quoted on pages 349,350,351 in
Bazzana and pages 340,341 in Mesaros. Mesaros states that the text concerned Gould's feelings for Cornelia Foss (although her name never appears) BUT Bazzana
states that the text is from a Gould 'notebook' dated <b>1980</b>.
Bazzana doesn't use conjecture, he states a fact, a date and doesn't presume to know who Gould was scribbling about. Sure - let's talk about Mesaros' book, by all means.<br>Mary<br><br> <br><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font> <br /><hr />Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. <a href='https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969' target='_new'>Sign up now.</a></body>
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