Yes we've had several winners for my last contest; in fact 2 folks emailed me within 10 minutes of me posting my last blog on Sunday, with 2 different correct answers: Picasso and Stravinsky. As it turns out upon further research, TS Eliot is also a correct answer, as is(apparently) Dali ...so...do you think all these great men/grand personages were stealing this line from each other? As they were all fairly contemporaneous. Who actually was the ur-originator of this priceless bon mot...or did the line just appear as a mime (pronounced MEEM, look it up) from outer space that popped into the popular consciousness all by its lonesome? Dunno, but I'm not wasting any more time on this as the London sunshine is pouring down like honey outside the McDonald's internet station on Finchley Road where I write this and Ray Davies is gloriously singing "Waterloo Sunset" on the radio muzak piped in here and I must make haste forthwith for a stroll in the light up Haverstock Hill or I will go mad with the french fry stink that pervades this joint...so please desist in sending me any more quiz answers (for the time being, there will be more brain teasers to come) as those 2 guys referred to at the top of this had it sewn up from the getgo (they know who they are)...

btw, had a wonderful recording session with Paul Humphreys and Claudia Brucken today on their new Onetwo album project...lovely people, beautiful beautiful song...

xxGary

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Posted by Gary Lucas to Gary Lucas at 9/08/2005 01:08:00 PM