#also in regards to irving--the real-life irving crept into more of the song choices simply because there's more info about him out there.
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Terror Lieutenant Playlists
Can't stop thinking about The Terror lately. Somehow this has resolved itself into making playlists for the Terror lieutenants.
They're hopeless. They're horrible. They're delightful. They're disasters. Sometimes they rise to an occasion. More usually, they slip flailingly beneath the merciless waves of fate and their own shortcomings. Or strengths that become shortcomings in the wrong situations. They try really, really hard.
It's not enough. It's never enough.
Anyway you can listen here--
Little
Irving
Hodgson
(I think I "get" Hodgson much less than the others. I think Little's and Irving's musical tastes would be earnest and [mostly] straightforward, but Hodgson is into all kinds of esoteric oddities, of which I am too square to be aware. So if his is too mainstream, I'm sorry.)
#the terror#george hodgson#edward little#john irving#terror lieutenants#are these songs they would like or songs that describe parts of their narrative arcs?#both i think#i hope#also in regards to irving--the real-life irving crept into more of the song choices simply because there's more info about him out there.#anyway 'the birks of invermay' wipes the floor with 'hampstead is the place to ruralize' as an ostensibly cheerful pastoral ditty#that can abruptly swerve into melancholic evocation of death. just ask robert fergusson.
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