Beethoven: The Poets’ Take: Anthony Anaxagorou, Raymond Antrobus & Ruth Padel
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I'm Forgotten, but No One Forgets.
I wondered how he lost the jubilance that jumped out his letters to me, and if he knew how to speak outside music. I didn't want to write something that would glorify george bridge tower, cause he might have ben an oss hole. He might ave been like wit, soginess. And beethoven mi ash done the right thing. We dut we just won't know. There's no way to know. But also, he was obviously ant violinist, and so and i think it speaks to another thing in beethoven, that beethoven always had this a er tendency to idealize what he couldn't see in somebody who
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