Call Me Unreliable

The dear Doc sends out a plea to his colleagues to fill the blogging void as he travels westward to become a stranger in a strange land, and his plea is met with...silence. We should at least have posted a meditative passage. Perhaps "Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. " would have been appropriate.

It seems an approprite passage to describe the politics of opera as well, which will be on display in a new book by Howard Breslin, the former agent of Pavarotti. The book's due to come out in October, but this just means you have time to read Manuela Hoelterhoff's highly entertaining description of Breslin in Cinderella and Company before he gets to give his own take on the matter.