“now that i have found someone / i’m feeling more alone / than i ever have before”

[larryhammer]

TIL that Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique was successful as a courtship device.

This is major Whisky-Tango-Foxtrot territory. 🚩🚩🚩 And, indeed, the marriage did not work out.

---L.

Subject quote from Brick, Ben Folds Five.

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[sovay]

TIL that Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique was successful as a courtship device.

If it was going to work, I'm sorry it didn't work out!

(I'm a bigger fan of Saint-Saëns' Dance macabre, but I'm not indifferent to the Berlioz.)