[lbo-talk] (In)conspicuous consumption?

[Joanna]

I've been thinking about this. I think the only thing I'd like to get my 
hands on is all the music Mozart would have written had he not died so 
absurdly early. And Schubert, while we're at it. And then, of course, 
share it with everybody.

But as for relics, ??? nothing comes to mind.

Joanna

Alan E. DeBakey wrote:
> "Simple" desire to get your hands, for example, on some hand-written Bach scores? 
>    
>   I don't get it. Do you hope  listening to Bach while holding such a thing in your possession would make his music, the music, sound differently? Feel differently?
>   
>
> Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
>   
> Are you sure of that? I wonder whether you may not be underestimating 
> the collecting mania. 
>
> Or for that matter, simple desire. There are objects I would give a great 
> deal to possess, even on the understanding that no one else could ever 
> know. Any snippet of music in JS Bach's hand, for example. A little 
> 17th-century Italian pipe organ with split sharps (they're tiny, it would fit 
> in my living room). The manuscript of any Trollope novel. Any painting 
> by Poussin. 
>
> And I'm not even a collector at all! 
>
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