Amerikali postmodernist kisa kurgu tarzi oyku ve roman yazari, Houston Post gazetesinin eski muhabiri, Location dergisinin eski editoru, Houston'daki Contemporary Arts Museum'un eski muduru Donald Barthelme’nin olum yildonumu (23 Temmuz 1989)
“Bazilarimiz arkadasimiz Colby'yi, son zamanlardaki davranislari yuzunden uzun bir suredir tehdit ediyordu. Sonra da fazla ileri gittigi icin onu asmaya karar verdik. Colby sirf fazla ileri gitti diye (fazla ileri gittigini inkar etmiyordu) asilmasi gerekmedigini one suruyordu. Ileri gitmek herkesin zaman zaman yaptigi birseydir, diyordu. Bu sava pek kulak asmadik. Cezanin infazi sirasinda ne tur bir muzigin calinmasini istedigini sorduk. Dusunecegini ama bunun biraz zaman alacagini soyledi. Kararini bir an once ogrenmemiz gerektigini belirttim, cunku orkestra sefi olan Howard'in muzisyenleri bulup prova yaptirmasi gerekiyordu ve muzigin ne olacaginiı bilmeden de buna baslayamazdi. Colby, Ives'ın Dorduncu Senfonisini her zaman sevmis oldugunu söyledi. Howard bunun bir ‘oyalama taktigi’ oldugunu, Ives'i calmanin neredeyse imkansiz oldugunu, haftalarca prova yapmak gerekecegini, bunu da herkesin bildigini, ayrıca orkestra ve koronun buyuklugunun muzik butcemizi cok asacagini soyledi. ‘Biraz makul ol,’ dedi Colby'ye. Colby biraz daha kolay birsey bulmaya calisacagini soyledi.” Bazilarimiz Arkadasimiz Colby'yi Tehdit Ediyordu
“Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby for a long time, because of the way he had been behaving. And now he'd gone too far, so we decided to hang him. Colby argued that just because he had gone too far (he did not deny that he had gone too far) did not mean that he should be subjected to hanging. Going too far, he said, was something everybody did sometimes. We didn't pay much attention to this argument. We asked him what sort of music he would like played at the hanging. He said he'd think about it but it would take him a while to decide. I pointed out that we'd have to know soon, because Howard, who is a conductor, would have to hire and rehearse the musicians and he couldn't begin until he knew what the music was going to be. Colby said he'd always been fond of Ives's Fourth Symphony. Howard said that this was a ‘delaying tactic’ and that everybody knew that the Ives was almost impossible to perform and would involve weeks of rehearsal, and that the size of the orchestra and chorus would put us way over the music budget. ‘Be reasonable,' he said to Colby. Colby said he'd try to think of something a little less exacting.”
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