I was listening to an orchestral performance of The Planets by Gustav Holst recently. Holst never wrote a movement for Pluto, ‘cause Pluto hadn’t been discovered yet when he wrote The Planets. So, yeah, it must have been kind of awkward there at performances of The Planets after Pluto was discovered. I bet people wouldn’t leave the hall after the performance. They’d stay in their seats saying, “Hey! Where’s Pluto?”, thinking maybe Pluto was going to be the encore. Now it’s not so awkward ‘cause there’s no Pluto planet. Had Pluto been discovered before Holst wrote the planets, and had Holst written a movement for Pluto, I wonder if that movement would have been dropped from performances after we found out Pluto was not a planet. We’ll never know.
Did Disney drop that Pluto guy after the planet was undiscovered? I hope he’s not on skid row living meal to meal…
Lastly, I used to know a woman who lived on Venus Street. It’s true. It was always fun to ask her if she still lived on Venus. Especially when there were other people around.
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