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Love does, after a fashion. Although Raoul gets the girl, the Phantom does get the memory of love and its exquisite pain. Christine loves the Phantom the only way she can--by being his angel of music. An angel cannot live in the tunnels beneath the opera house. It is this realization that finally allows the Phantom to let Raoul win Christine...
...heir to an entire, and in his time still viable, tradition of European painting. Conversation is, on one level, an intimate interior -- the painter in his pajamas chatting with Mme. Matisse in her chair. But its hieratic grandeur irresistibly puts you in mind of an Annunciation, with angel (though wingless) and Madonna. In particular Matisse inherited the pastoral mode, replete with allegory. He refers to the poetry of his time -- Baudelaire, Mallarme -- with the same sense of possession and community that Renaissance painters like Lotto, Giorgione or Titian did to Ovid's Metamorphoses. As the figures in Venetian Renaissance pastorals...
...Only the intensity never varies. Talk to Me Baby has a rock overlay; Bobby's Rock spins along with blues underpinnings driving a twangy, near countrified, Duane Eddy-style beat; I Believe makes you hear the grit under the guitar strings, the true Delta way; Anna Lee and Strange Angel feature James with a band, big-city style but still cutting close to the soul and staying close to his roots...
...book -- her first was last year's best-selling Damage -- British novelist Josephine Hart has concocted a silly piece of romantic formula and fitted it out with enough heavy portents to sustain a Greek myth. "They say the veil that hides the future from us was woven by an angel of mercy," she muses. Or, "Novelists of our own lives, making ourselves up from bits of other people, using the dead and living to tell our tale, we tell tales." And this is only in the prologue...
...much reading that's serious and meant to produce 'readings,' that I read these for entertainment," he says. Last year he tried his own hand at the genre, publishing Avenging Angel, a tale of murder set at Cambridge University...