Re: GG: Sex, Lust and Our Hero

[Phillip LaMarche <plamarch@jal1.telmex.net.mx>]

I am wondering about the historical correctness of this story concerning J.S.
Bach: Somewhere I read that apart from Bach having two wives and over twenty
children, that he used to secretly practise at night up in an attic on an old
spinster. If this is true wouldn´t GG have thought that perhaps if Bach could
do it so could GG.
John P. Hill wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, william brooke wrote:
>
> > i agree with you furthermore that celibacy does seem right for mr.
> > gould.
>
> Sorry, William....I phrased my original comment poorly.  I was trying to
> state the opposite.  I think we sometimes "canonize" GG a bit too much and
> this idea that celibacy would somehow make him more God-like or more
> "pure" as an artist just doesn't cut it for me.  A chacun son gout
> (YMMV)...
>
> jh