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Prelude to a Mattress Dance

The above "Take This Waltz" review is dated July 5, 2012.

Related material from posts of July 5, 2012 —

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" Video killed the radio star . . ."

This tune concludes "Take This Waltz,"
a 2011 film starring Michelle Williams.

Related material —
A New York Times  obituary from this afternoon
and a video from the 2011 Williams film.

The Times  report is of a "radio star" death on Tuesday, June 27.

Related philosophy from Sarah Silverman . . .

"Mind the Gap."

Prelude to a Mattress Dance

From “Take This Waltz” (2011)

Related architecture —

“And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook
With the photographs there, and the moss”

— Leonard Cohen, “Take This Waltz” lyrics

An excerpt from http://yarchive.net/med/middle_ages.html —

From: ((Steven B. Harris))
Subject: Re: Problems with sci.med.aids FAQ (section 7) Part II
Date: 09 Jun 1995

In <173AD1188AS85.AVIRAMA@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU>
AVIRAMA@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU (Amittai F. Aviram) writes to
David Mertz:

>Ahem....  With all due respect, it seems to me to make no sense
>to criticize a scientist or medical doctor for "a childish
>little schoolboy positivism."

    Well, I think he was referring to the Vienna School, where
the schoolboys shout childish things like "Your mother still
believes in Compte!" and "Well, at least my mother has values and
isn't a logical empiricist like YOUR old man!"  Woody Allen went
there, but says he was expelled during a philosophy test for
looking into the soul of the kid next to him.

Midrash —

"There's a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews"

— Leonard Cohen lyric, "Take This Waltz"

Here's looking at you, kid.

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