I read in the papers recently that Easter has now become almost as great a non-religious celebration as Christmas, with gifts and cards, crackers, candles and floral wreaths.
Personally, I won’t be celebrating in any way, except inasmuch as today being Easter Sunday has influenced the choice of photos for this blog post.
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Yesterday I quoted Claude Debussy as having said:
The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
I’d found the quotation on the web, but, as with so much information out there today, there was no source cited and no original French.
So I went looking and found this in a footnote of Debussy: his life and mind, Volume 1 by Edward Lockspeiser:
J’ai en ce moment l’âme gris-fer et de tristes chauves-souris tournent au clocher de mes rêves!
Which makes it look as if the quotation is genuine.
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don't confuse the narrator 