I get a kick out of @CosimaWagner on Twitter.
R reflects on his facial features, which he cannot reconcile with his talents.
R had a very bad night, horrid dreams, congestions, an error of diet no doubt the cause. He does not drink his waters.
The gray weather makes R indignant, and when he sends for champagne at lunch, he says all that is left to do is either drink or grumble.
In the evening R says, "I have drunk too much beer, and then I become quarrelsome and overly touchy, like R. Schumann."
By now you get the joke. So funny, in the midst of all the other flotsam and jetsam on Twitter -- look, there I am all of a sudden sounding like R.
I like the Schumann reference. Once I read a really funny story about how Schumann and Wagner were out on a boat together with some friends. Schumann never said a word while Wagner talked all the time.
Later Schumann complained to a friend he could not get a word in edgewise.
And Wagner complained to a friend that Schumann never said a word and that it was exhausting to have to do all the talking, all the time.
Hahahahahaaa! We have this charming story through two different letters. They appeared, if I remember correctly, in a book called "Wagner Remembered."
Anyway, back to my Twitter friend, @CosimaWagner. She is pretty good about Tweeting. She weighs in about once a day which is more than I can say about most other people including myself.
I look forward to her next missive!
