All because m1469 "just had to." lol
Prepare yourself. Two worlds collide. Piano meets snail.
Look what I found here
https://www.conchsoc.org/funbase.htm?row2col1=rhymes5.htmEINE KLEINE SNAILMUSIK
May Sarton
“The snail watchers are interested in snails from all angles .... At the moment they are investigating the snail’s reaction to music. ‘We have played to them on the harp in the garden and in the country on the pipe,’ said Mr. Heaton, ‘and we have taken them into the house and played to them on the piano.”’ — The London Star.
What soothes the angry snail?
What’s music to his horn?
For the “Sonata Appassionata,”
He shows scorn,
And Handel
Makes the frail snail
Quail,
While Prokofieff
Gets no laugh
And Tschaikowsky, I fear,
No tear.
Piano, pipe, and harp,
Dulcet or shrill,
Flat or sharp,
Indoors or in the garden,
Are willy-nilly
Silly
To the reserved, slow,
Sensitive
Snail,
Who prefers to live
Glissandissimo,
Pianissimo.
The New Yorker, 25 January 1947; copyright 1947 by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., 25 West 43rd. Street, New York, N.Y., 10036. We are indebted to Miss Sarton, and to Miss D. E. Terry of the Editorial Offices, The New Yorker, for kindly granting permission to reprint the above poem.
(Extracted from Conchologists’ Newsletter No. 29, p. 97)
Eine Kleine Schnecke-Musik
"Beethoven's melodious thunder, Handel's choral might, Mozart's tender grace, Bellini's languourous sweetness, are even more lost on them than on the lymphatic dowagers in the grand tier, who chatter audibly of guipire and the last drawing-room, while Grisi's impassioned expression, and Mario's cantabile, are entrancing the rest of the audience. The Mollusc can only perceive noises."
George Henry Lewes, "Sea-side studies at Ilfracombe, Tenby, the Scilly Isles, and Jersey" (Blackwood, Edinburgh & London, 1860), p.374.
(guipire or guipure is a kind of lace). Compare "Eine Kleine Snailmusik," Newsletter No. 29, p. 97, above.
(from A. E. Ellis)
(Extracted from Conchologists' Newsletter No.39, p. 241)
Topic: Snail Race!