In a message dated 1/30/98 5:41:17 PM, you wrote:
 
<<I have to confess as I get older, his prejudices and bombasts bother me
more.>>
 
For me, also, the tones in some of his voices that I didn't like at first
glance are even less appealing as time goes on...on the other hand the
astonishing beauty of his lyric style, the sincerity and mastery of his craft,
and what you call his "pagan sense of the sacred" seem more moving, more rare,
and more important as I get older.  Jay Anania