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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">Defoe was 6 years old during the Plague
Year 1665, so his memories of it were probably a bit hazy and
unreliable.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">Yet the genius of "A Journal of the Plague
Year" is the absolute conviction of every reader that this is an authentic,
first-person account by an Englishman who lived through and witnessed the
Great Plague. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">Defoe had -- Defoe
<STRONG><EM>invented</EM></STRONG> -- the gift of not sounding like a great
novelist or storyteller, but sounding like the honest, genuine guy next door who
just happened to witness or experience astonishing and terrifying things. Most
readers at the time (1722) indeed thought they were reading a work of
non-fiction.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">I hope he hasn't gone out of style.
Some venerated gasbag novelists fully deserve to go out of style and
be mercifully forgotten. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">But Defoe is as astonishing and thrilling
to readers today as he was when he wrote these amazing books. And "A Journal of
the Plague Year" (IMHO) was his best.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">Defoe hasn't been publishing much new
stuff, but there's a delightfully surprising recent development in his
career. Scholars have pretty much established that a very popular ripping yarn
about the vile misdeeds of the terrible pirates of the age, "A General History
of the Pyrates" (1724), was actually written by Defoe under the pseudonymn
"Captain Charles Johnson." My wife got it for me a few Christmases ago, and
it's a pip! Arrrrrgh!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">We also owe a great debt to the Plague
itself. When it broke out, Cambridge University closed, and a 22-year-old
undergrad was sent back to the family farm at Woolsthorpe. While he was killing
time napping beneath a tree, an apple fell on his head, and Isaac
Newton wondered if the force that made the apple drop was the same force that
kept the Moon in orbit. (It was.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">Bob</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=pzumst@bluewin.ch href="mailto:pzumst@bluewin.ch">Pat</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=f_minor@glenngould.org
href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org">f_minor@glenngould.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 01, 2012 2:59
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [f_minor] Orlando
Gibbons</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>....with the only minor problem that Defoe was not an actual
eye witness.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>But given the age of the book it is remarkably easy to read
and modern in its style, working more as a reportage one might remeber from
Life or McLean’s than a dull history book.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A title=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/376
href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/376"><FONT
size=4>http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/376</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>In any case it is a crying shame that GG* never recorded
more post-elisabethan music. Somehow stuff like, Tye Tallis, Downald, Gibbons,
Byrd etc is starting to grow on me....and if it had not been for GG, I’d
probably never heard of these two composers. Maybe I should watch The
Tudors after all...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>* Over the years this list has used the acronym GG as it is
more conveniant than Mr. Gould or Glenn Gould or, Darwin forbid, just Glenn.
“GG” has become common use over the years, not at least because it is short
and not too informal. You may call him Glenn, Our St. Glenn of Uptergrove or
whatever. Some cynics call him overrated. I call him GG with formality and
respect.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Pat</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com
href="mailto:maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com">maryellen jensen</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:43 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=f_minor@glenngould.org
href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org">f_minor@glenngould.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [f_minor] Orlando Gibbons</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4>Stephanie,</FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4><BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"
size=4><BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4>There's a very
interesting book you might like to read: "A Journal of The Plague Year" by
Daniel Defoe. </FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4><BR></FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4><BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"
size=4>Mary</FONT><BR><BR>
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Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:40:52 -0500<BR>From: slynnwright83@gmail.com<BR>To:
f_minor@glenngould.org<BR>Subject: Re: [f_minor] Orlando Gibbons<BR><BR>Why
are you reading so much into that word, as if you are offended by it? It is
simple...the description of his death on Wikipedia is uncanny; it freaked me
out. Any detailed description of a horrific death is creepy to read--imagining
the contortions of his face, the distorted body movements. It was highly
disturbing. Clearly the death disturbed many others during that time: the
majority of his biography focuses on his untimely, disturbing death.
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<DIV>Stephanie<BR><BR>
<DIV class=ecxgmail_quote>On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:26 AM, maryellen jensen
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4>Stephanie, you
wrote:</FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4><BR></FONT><BR><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4><B>"</B>Also, if you have not read about
Orlando Gibbons's life, it is quite interesting, especially the manner in
which he died. The writeup on Wikipedia is really uncanny.<B>" </B></FONT>
<DIV><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4><BR></FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4>What do you mean by "really
uncanny"?</FONT><BR><BR><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"
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