> Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I must be perverse. As I listened to this (very fine) tune I kept
>> thinking about the horror movie "Carnival Of Souls"...
>>
>
> Thanks Dave, although I find it slightly disturbing that you sensed
> something not entirely happy in the tune. You're actually one of three
> people who have said that, and I can't for the life of me understand how
> that should come about.
>>
>> I must be perverse. As I listened to this (very fine) tune I kept
>> thinking about the horror movie "Carnival Of Souls"...
>>
>
> Thanks Dave, although I find it slightly disturbing that you sensed
> something not entirely happy in the tune. You're actually one of three
> people who have said that, and I can't for the life of me understand how
> that should come about.
> To my ears the form and instrumentation are reminiscent of music for a
> carousel or carnival. In my psyche (admittedly influenced by 'way too
> many horror and sf books & movies from the 50s and 60s) there's
> something inherently surreal or even menacing about such things and
> events. Perhaps it's a cultural conditioning ?
> carousel or carnival. In my psyche (admittedly influenced by 'way too
> many horror and sf books & movies from the 50s and 60s) there's
> something inherently surreal or even menacing about such things and
> events. Perhaps it's a cultural conditioning ?
It was definitely early conditioning in my life regarding circus clowns.
As a very sickly infant and young child, I quickly learned to associate circus clowns with intense, physical pain.
The pediatrician had circus clown portraits on the walls of his waiting rooms, hallways, and patient rooms. Everywhere I went and waited, there were circus clowns. Then came the treatments and pain, with those circus clowns watching and laughing.
To this day (I'm 56), I don't find anything remotely joyful or comforting about circus clowns. They were the stuff of nightmares to me.
Amazed and just realizing how much I'm *still* upset with circus clowns,
Stephen.
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