Soundtrack (II)
I got a $50 iTunes card for my birthday. (Thanks, Dad!) Amazingly, I did not buy any Stravinsky this time. But I did buy: Pierre Boulez. Le marteau sans maître....
Category: Between the ears
Retrospective diagnosis
Attempting to impose a modern medical interpretation upon symptoms that have long since carried away their sufferers is always a chancy affair, and the older th...
A case for leisurely literature
Immediately after finishing the Tale of Genji, I read Egil’s Saga. Both take place at roughly the same time (circa 1000 C.E.), and were composed not much later ...
Rhetorical questions and rhetorical answers
History is only a catalog of the forgotten. (Henry Adams) I’m still a slow learner. But let’s talk about witches. James Wakelee’s first appear...
Soundtrack I
Earphones are wonderful things, muffling the here-and-now of the acoustical world, and replacing it with some new distraction of one’s free choice. I don&...