![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
i can slay a dragon
Nov. 27th, 2021 03:15 pmStephen Sondheim died.
I grieve.
To be sure, dying at the age of 91 is not indicative of a life tragically cut short, but. He was working on a new show. Which no doubt will come to the stage in due course.
He was absolutely a genius at what he did. With some reservations, he was also a pretty decent human being. He created so much that I adore. I could have wished him to live to be 120, with all his creative faculties intact.
***
Beast played to me a wonderful, terrible piece on the radio which was written as from the point of view of a migrant child desperately clinging to a small boat. Beast had tears, I had tears. And I wish very much that I lived in the country that child thought he was travelling to. Even though I don't, however, it's still a better place than wherever that child, those migrants, are travelling from, and why the fuck are we as a society so almightily cruel and heartless about letting them in?
I grieve.
To be sure, dying at the age of 91 is not indicative of a life tragically cut short, but. He was working on a new show. Which no doubt will come to the stage in due course.
He was absolutely a genius at what he did. With some reservations, he was also a pretty decent human being. He created so much that I adore. I could have wished him to live to be 120, with all his creative faculties intact.
***
Beast played to me a wonderful, terrible piece on the radio which was written as from the point of view of a migrant child desperately clinging to a small boat. Beast had tears, I had tears. And I wish very much that I lived in the country that child thought he was travelling to. Even though I don't, however, it's still a better place than wherever that child, those migrants, are travelling from, and why the fuck are we as a society so almightily cruel and heartless about letting them in?