[HPforGrownups] FW: FF: (filk) The Last Waltz

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 26876

on 9/29/01 10:26 AM, Susan Hall at shall at sfiweb.demon.co.uk wrote:

> Second explanatory note
> If anyone considers the first explanatory note to be excessively pretentious
> I commend to him or her the sleeve notes to *Blood on The Tracks*.

::swoons:: I LOVE Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts! (Although I have to
say I prefer the Joan Baez version on Diamonds, Disk 2. She at least can
sing :D)

Susan, what an amazing filk! (Although, like the original song, it's long
enough to count as a fic in its own right!) Marvellous! I adored the Tarot
references.

One quibble with your notes...surely the de Nerval sonnet is "Je suis le
tenebreux..." not "...tenebrae...", since the latter is Latin for darkness
and not a French ending for "one who is X", ie. "shadowy one=shadowman"
would be "tenebreux". There's an excellent Flanders & Swann spoof of "Je
suis le tenebreux", and I've heard one taking the piss out of tenors as
well. "Je suis un tenor, moi"...

--John, qui est un tenor
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