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The SHERRILL MILNES -Baritone part of a 3 part ART SERIES 

Sun Dec. 5/.76. 4 p.m. xxxxxxxhad me on COULD NINE. Due to the crime evening entertainment has become toodangerous [[too dangerous]]. When I made my enthusiastic remark wondered where the expression so natural to me came from. Here it is.

From medieval Greek consmotology. In this model of the Universe, the earth was surrounded by NINE CONCENTRIC CIRCLES OF SPHERES. Beyond them was GOD. Spiritual beings inhabited each sphere; the xxxx seraphim, the highest order of Angels, lived in the Ninth. This sphere, called the Primum Mobile (first movable), was moved by its love of God and thus caused the others to rotate and resound with harmony. Here one would be close to God, in the company of the seraphim, enjoying the music of spheres - hence "on cloud nine."

Evidently my facility of expression and love of Greek and Roman History, left this in my subconscious. Never could I have expressed my starved for too long love of Opera more perfectly.