Sunday 7 June 2020

What's New Pussycat?

“There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true." - Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling


My mother-in-law likes to recall the story of how she sat on Tom Jones' knee in a nightclub back in the 1960s.  I think we can assume that he the incident has been forgotten by him, if the reports of his life are even remotely true. Anyway, Sir Tom - who took his stage name from the film starring Albert Finney - is eighty today, so here he is with an elegiac cover of a Leonard Cohen song:







3 comments:

  1. I was about to wonder why there was a music video embedded in a
    ludosophy blog, but I suppose it's not unusual.

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  2. I like 'ludosophy', but it's a hybrid, like 'television'. How about 'agonosophy'? Or, at a pinch, 'ludosapient' perhaps.

    Nice Tom Jones reference. They are fairly hard to work in to normal conversation given how many of his better known songs are about murder and death.

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  3. Whichever you prefer; I shall bear it stoically!

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