{"id":374,"date":"2010-05-01T19:07:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T18:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=374"},"modified":"2010-05-01T21:09:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T20:09:43","slug":"election-drama-clegg-loves-beckett-waiting-for-gordo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Election drama: Clegg loves Beckett – waiting for Gordo?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not content with claiming Blake as his favourite poet, today Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg declares in the Guardian<\/a> that his ‘hero’ is Samuel Beckett. Scarily, he writes: ‘I must have read Waiting for Godot<\/em> \u2013 of course \u2013 a hundred times.’ ‘Of course’ it’s good to read Godot<\/em> – but a hundred times<\/em>, Nick? I think you must be preparing for a Lib-Lab pact: waiting for Gordo to come along and rescue you from a life on the sidelines. Or will it be David Cameron who gets to be Lucky?<\/p>\n

Literary Connections cannot but give credit to a public figure who shows unabashed admiration for a great writers. Furthermore, as Charlotte Higgins pointed out earlier in the week<\/a> he also ‘adores Schubert and Chopin… Fabulous choices: this man is obviously a big German song fan, with the wonderful Schubert Erlkönig, sung by Fischer-Dieskau, in the line-up, as well as Strauss’s Four Last Songs.’ Cue inevitable joke: ‘As someone said on Twitter: Clegg’s obviously making a Liedership bid.’ Just let’s hope it’s not like Schubert’s last song-cycle – his Schwanengesang<\/em> (Swan Song). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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