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By way of some small reparation for my destructive grammar-nazi-ism in the thread above, a little "good Nazi-ism": Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's fine version of Robert Schumann's "Ich grolle nicht..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5W3qGUa9XU
I don't know how many of you have feelings for Cracky that are even approximately addressed by, or reflected in, this unusually violent and bitter Lied. I can only say that it has been a great comfort to me in the numerous aftermaths of my numerous crucifixions at the hands of the many apes and travesties of Cracky that I've had to do with over the years.
Roughly translated, the lyrics - a poem of Heine's - run:
"I am not bitter
Although my heart breaks.
Eternally lost love,
I am not bitter.
Although you shine
With the magnificence of diamonds
No ray penetrates the black night of your heart
This I have known for a long time.
For I saw you once in a dream
And saw the darkness in the chambers of your soul
And saw the serpent that gnaws always at your breast
Oh my love, I saw how deeply miserable you are
I am not bitter...
I think there is an authentic co-existence of murderous rage and loving, nurturing pity in these words and in this music. The only appropriate attitude, as I say, if not to Cracky then at least to one or two people who've worn her make-up from time to time.