<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578843" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wagner Room</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Sorry, sir. Booked out.. but then...”<br> The patronne’s voice is calm, you’re<br>penniless again in Paris, facing doom<br>and banking on the hope her “then..<br>..again” - will mean a room.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“.Eh bien, there is..the Wagner one, <br>“That’s fine”.You sign and slip up to<br> the premier etage, aware you’re in<br>a debt of gratitude whose depth <br>is verging on Wagnerian </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and gingerly approach the desk <br>on which the “Parsifal” composer <br>must’ve had the opening thunder<br>chords in music mind, . But find <br>you’re also forced to wonder-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">was it this room’s compression, <br>exile, mounting debts, Minna’s<br>moods, music-drama’s dreams<br>had him contemplate such mad<br>mythic and Teutonic themes? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">An overture begins. The Rienzi<br>chords cross-fade with strums<br>on a guitar, some Latin Quarter<br>busker shouts and in the bowels<br>beneath the metro drums, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a duke-box Piaf bleats Love Ever<br>and you have a letter to dash off<br>that is a winding -back of tape<br>in which you piece together all<br>these bits of Paris into shape.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+a%27Beckett">John a'Beckett</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578843" data-title="The Wagner Room de John a'Beckett" data-description="“Sorry, sir. Booked out.. but then...” The patronne’s voice is calm, you’re penniless again in Paris, facing doom and banking on the hope her “then.. ..again” - will mean a room. “.Eh bien, there is..the Wagner one, “That’s fi..."></div> </div> </div>

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