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So, the Universe is pulling me to Sting this week. I had an hour to myself yesterday and my car drove itself to the nearest Barnes & Noble. I went to the first place I always go in a bookstore - the Bargain Books. I believe one person's junk could be another person's treasure. I collect classics and books by Indian writers, which they may not mean much to the mainstream reading populace. So, I've found some great finds for under $5 or $10. Yesterday, I found Sting's memoir " Broken Music " for $4.98. I've read only 30 pages and I'm captivated by his writing los angeles times news yahoo reg reqd style. His prose is so lyrical and poetic it leaps off the page. For example, here's a line from the first paragraph: "My wife, Trudie, and I are sheltering beneath an umbrella, while high above our heads two seagulls wheel recklessly in the wind; and the sea is a roaring threat in the darkness" He could've said "Trudie and I stood under an umbrella and we could hear the seagulls and the water." Actually, what made me buy this book were 2 paragraphs on page 298. Sting is in an old French hotel next to the alleyway where prostititutes have stood "for a thousand years." In the hotel foyer, there is an old poster of the play by Edmond Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac," which prompts this musing: "He is a tragic clown man with an enormous nose and a plumed hat. He is a man entrusted with a secret; an eloquent and dazzling wit who, having successfully los angeles times news yahoo reg reqd wooed a beautiful woman on behalf of a friend cannot los angeles times news yahoo reg reqd reveal himself as the true author when his friend dies. He is a man who loves but is not loved, and the woman he loves but cannot reach is called Roxanne. That night I will go to my room and write a song about a girl. I will call her Roxanne. I will conjure her unpaid from the street below the hotel and cloak her in the romance and the sadness of Rostand's play, and her creation will change los angeles times news yahoo reg reqd my life. " I think that's what is appealing to me about this book that it's a memoir, not so much of an autobiography that zips through significant events. It pauses long enough to evoke significant moments.
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