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Dante and the Hypocrites
We are looking at Actors and Hypocrites – the same game, different rules: people playing parts, sometimes asking us to play along, sometimes desperately keeping us from perceiving that this is not their true self. We hear from the usual guests: Kinks, Dylan, RLS, and also old friends like Leonard Cohen and Randy Newman. And a lot of attention on what Dante’s myth can tell us about these false faces people put on. Thoreau comes into it too.
Everybody’s in Show-Biz (Kinks, “Celluloid Heroes”)
Land of Dreams (Randy Newman, “Masterman and Baby J”)
Abbey Road (Beatles, “Carry That Weight”)
Biograph (Dylan, “Positively 4th Street”)
The Future (Leonard Cohen, “Be for Real”)
Dante: Inferno (Penguin Classics) (trans. Robin Kirkpatrick)
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Penguin Classics)
Walden and Civil Disobedience: (American Library) (Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience”)
Tags: Abbey Road, Acting, Actors, Be for Real, Beatles, Celluloid Heroes, civil disobedience, Dante, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dylan, Everybody's in Show-Biz, Expediency, Hypocrites, Inferno, Kinks, Leonard Cohen, Masterman and Baby J, Positively 4th Street, Randy Newman, RLS, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thoreau
This is wonderful 🙂 I’m going to be singing The Great Pretender for the rest of the day, laughing about the “clink clink clink” argument, and thinking about Dante. *sigh* what a lovely way to start the day.
Thanks again for the musical conversation – with songs both known and new (I enjoyed noting the conterpointing organ on both Positively 4th Street and on Be For Real) – and the playful acting of the part of the radio presenter.