Armstrong expressed regret, not sorrow.
Only after 1968, when the code-talkers' story was declassified, did the fame and honours begin a bit embarrassingly, he said to flow.He mourned the suffering and injustice of his people's past, but insisted that the Navajo story was ultimately of triumph, not sorrow.
"May sorrow break these chains of my sufferings, for pity's sake," the libretto tells us: a curious invocation — we expect joy, not sorrow, to perform that task — and one that von Trier is only too eager to obey, closing the sequence with the orgasm of the adults and, simultaneously, the fatal fall of their young son, who climbs to a window and drops into the snow-thickened night.
"May sorrow break these chains of my sufferings, for pity's sake," the libretto tells us: a curious invocation we expect joy, not sorrow, to perform that task and one that von Trier is only too eager to obey, closing the sequence with the orgasm of the adults and, simultaneously, the fatal fall of their young son, who climbs to a window and drops into the snow-thickened night.
It is not sorrow, despair or resignation, or the wringing of hands: it is just the great grief and lamenting of a mother who has lost her son".
For all my fellow travelers who feel daunted by the call of these vows, I would like to leave you with the lines of the poet H.W. Longfellow, who said, Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day.
He gave us all specific directions to remember him with laughter and all the good times before and not sorrows.
Graham's program note called the solo a dance of sorrows, "not the sorrow of specific person, time or place but the personification of grief itself".
There may be sorrows, but not that sorrow.
Assouline says that Simenon felt not just sorrow and guilt but relief.
Mr. Santorum offered this prediction not in sorrow, but as a point of pride.
