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[Bob]

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[pianistimo]

ok.  take shakespeare's tempest.  if prosperos power is so effective against his opponents as it appears to be, then why didn't he use it back in milan to avoid being exiled in the first place? and, given that prospero is so keen on his magic and takes such delight in it that it gives him so much power, why does he abandon it before returning to milan?  just a few
  questions that i gleaned off an article on 'the tempest.'

now, this particular scholar says that shakespeare had a sense of his own art - what it can achieve and what it cannot.  i find that quite interesting - that he knew how far drama and the arts can take people, but there's a sort of boundary that it still has. 

and, did you know that 'the tempest' has several sequels?  'caliban' is the central character in browning's 'caliban on setebus.' 

why do i find this interesting?  i don't know.

[pianistimo]

i am also interested in 'the golden mean' (ever since reading an article about mozart and the golden mean)  for plenty more on the subject:

www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fiblnArt.html

[Bob]

(Bob is talking out of his... the other side of his piano.)
Ah... good old Prospero.

Some people think he is cold, but I believe he may be misunderstood.  Take his meeting with Ferdinand and Miranda for example.  And how about the fact that he reunites Ferdinand with his father?  Does that sound like a truly heartless person?
(Bob has no idea who Prospero is and has never read The Tempest.)
I think Prospero simply realizes he is running out of time and that life is short.
(I am not making fun of you pianissimo.  I'm just testing the internet.  Do I sound like I know what I'm talking about?)

[pianistimo]

you sound like you know what you're talking about.  how do you do that small print?  ohyes.  subscript.  i see!m wait.  it didn't work.   

[Bob]

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