Something to ponder about

I refer you to Leo's post, dated December 2, 2007.

Excuse his English, but can you really say he is wrong?

I mean, I'm not asking for an excuse to start going around touching the chests of women I know, but he's right isn't he?

The victimisation of modern men is very scary. Do you know the state the world is in now?

Male teachers hesitate from helping female students who have sustained injuries.

Grown men are reluctant to be seen alone with a child, even if they were his own children. When children approach for help, the kneejerk reaction is to bring them to a woman.

Everything they do, they say are carefully thought through, considering legal ramifications, because the world is so eager to criminally charge people. Because it makes them feel good.

This is the world we have today. A world of men in fear, in fear of stepping into an endless array of traps for being too trusting, for being too helpful, for being too friendly, and most importantly, for being too naive. Except the Middle Eastern Islamic countries, of course. That's a totally different story.

One would also do well to watch The Green Mile.

Anyway.

Recently, after watching Hitman, I've been listening to many covers of an opera song, "Ave Maria".

I quote from Wikipedia:

"The piece is often referred to as Schubert's Ave Maria; but it was originally composed as a setting of a song from Walter Scott's popular epic poem The Lady of the Lake, in the German translation by Adam Storck, and thus forms part of Schubert's "Liederzyklus vom Fräulein vom See". In Scott's poem the character Ellen Douglas, the "Lady" of "the Lake" has gone with her father to hide in the "Goblin's cave" nearby to avoid drawing the vengeance of the King on their host, the Clan-Alpine chieftain Roderick Dhu, who has been affording them shelter since the King had exiled them. She sings a prayer addressed to the Virgin Mary, calling upon her for help. Ellen is overheard by Roderick Dhu who is higher on the mountain, raising the clan for war.

The opening words and refrain of Ellen's song, namely "Ave Maria" (Latin, "Hail Mary"), may have led to the idea of adapting Schubert's melody as a setting for the full text of the traditional Roman Catholic prayer Ave Maria. The Latin version of the Ave Maria is now so frequently used with Schubert's melody, that it has led to the misconception that he originally wrote the melody as a setting for the Ave Maria."

It's a very beautiful song. Well, soothing to say the least.

I have included an imeem on the side if you want to listen to it. It is the version that was in the movie.