[Milton-L] Attacks on Milton and Civility on Milton-L

[Horace Jeffery Hodges]

Let's forget the snarky sniping and dance with Leonard Cohen to the strains of a burning violin...
 
http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=7pA5UhNaYw0
 

Dance Me to the End of Love

Written and Performed by Leonard Cohen
 
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin 
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in 
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove 
And dance me to the end of love 
Yeah, dance me to the end of love 
 
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone 
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon 
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of 
And dance me to the end of love 
Dance me to the end of love 
 
Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on 
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long 
We're both of us beneath our love . . . both of us above 
And dance me to the end of love 
Yeah, dance me to the end of love 
 
Dance me to the children who are asking to be born 
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn 
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn 
And dance me to the end of love 
 
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin 
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in 
Touch me with your naked hand . . . touch me with your glove 
Dance me to the end of love 
Dance me to the end of love 
Dance me to the end of love 


--- On Mon, 9/29/08, Tony Demarest <tonydemarest at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Tony Demarest <tonydemarest at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [Milton-L] Attacks on Milton and Civility on Milton-L
To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 4:59 PM

A delight to have a Cohen and a Milton fan- I think there are more, below the
radar-

Tony
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> From: jherz at alcor.concordia.ca
> To: milton-l at lists.richmond.edu
> Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Attacks on Milton and Civility on Milton-L
> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:44:56 -0400
> 
> Ditto to Steve Fallon's post. I'm off to Brooklyn this weekend and
I certainly hope to see the exhibit.  It's important that we encourage
interest beyond our walls. This semester a couple of people are auditing my
Milton course because they are planning a Paradise Lost event/performance here
in Montreal this spring..  He did the police (the gods, the devils , us poor
folk) in many voices, did our Milton, so bravo to those who want to sing along. 
As Leonard Cohen sings "ring the bells that still can ring/ forget the
perfect offering/ there is a crack, a crack in everything/ that's how the
light gets in."
> Judith Hsrz
> P.S.  And also ditto to the one post a day temperance suggestiom
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