F for Fake

Those who make it through to the end of this patchwork of a track will probably recognize the voice of Orson Welles ("awesome" Welles me thinks ...). It's a short excerpt taken from his 1974 "F for Fake", which received much criticism in its time but is regarded nevertheless as his last major film and a definite must-see. Transcript of the audio excerpt : Our works in stone, in paint, in print are spared, some of them for a few decades, or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash. The triumphs and the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life. We’re going to die. “Be of good heart,” cry the dead artists out of the living past. Our songs will all be silenced – but what of it? Go on singing. Maybe a man’s name doesn’t matter all that much.