I don’t know what you see in that piano…
Further to Monty Python’s take on speech impediments, the process of artistic inspiration is not always smooth:
I’ve provided the subtitled version to allow us to practise our Spanish (cf. the Greek subtitles for Shoeshine Johnny). See also A Mozart medley, and Beethoven’s melodic gift—yeah right.
The process of creativity is constantly mediated by—oops, better go, the chambermaid‘s just arrived.
Among many Monty Python clips on here, I think of the Sartre sketch, and the brilliant Away from it all. And for another “hideous encounter with domestic necessity”, do read Compton Mackenzie meets Henry James!
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