[fight_truth_decay]

"as per our discussion on W.H. Auden"

After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics [Requires Real Player].

As the son of a physicist, Auden had an enduring interest in science and the moral issues surrounding it. This recording comes from the 1965 Edinburgh International Festival.

So the shared interest of an "feeling" intellectual in a cold scientific shell

[GOPJ]

Thanks for sharing - Auden’s a favorite poet of mine.

[hennie pennie]

Auden's MI5 File - Clouseau Investigates Auden
http://audensociety.org/investigation.html

Wikipedia Entry for W.H. Auden:

".....In 1951, shortly before the two British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean fled to the USSR, Burgess attempted to phone Auden to arrange a vacation visit to Ischia that he had earlier discussed with Auden; Auden never returned the call and had no further contact with either spy, but a media frenzy ensued in which his name was mistakenly associated with their escape. The frenzy was repeated when the MI5 documents on the incident were released in 2007.....