CHOICE WORDS

I don’t mean to be rude…
Or make fun of anyone's writing…

Especially regarding Igor Stravinsky but…

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

You see, I used to write radio spots…

And so I listen intently when I hear them…

And when I heard the radio spot for The Rake’s Progress…

An opera by Stravinsky that will be performed in my town I…

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

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Sorry!

But here’s the synopsis used in the radio commercial:

A man of means is tempted by the devil…

Runs away and marries a bearded lady…

Loses all his money then commits suicide.

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Sorry, but that synopsis just struck me as funny.

I then Googled The Rakes Progess and here’s a synopsis I found:

Tom Rakewell is a young ne’er-do-well whose fiance’s father does

Not approve of him because he doesn’t work. When a mysterious man,

Nick Shadow, a.k.a. the devil, arrives and tells Rakewell that he has

Inherited a fortune from an unknown uncle but must travel to London

to claim it, Rakewell is enticed into a life of gluttony and sloth for which

a day of reckoning must finally come.

See? Now this sounds like an opera…

Not a comedy.

Quite a difference…
In the two writing styles…

I guess the devil really is in the details.

Sorry…

Please excuse me…

I guess at this point…
NaNoWriMo is making me a bit delirious…

And I’ll find anything amusing.

But then…
Which synopsis would make you go see the opera?
(assuming you would ever go to an opera)

Always, Em-Musing