October 2009
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Some months ago my friend Robert gave me a copy of Murray Perahia’s performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, saying that it sets a new standard for the piece, and is better than the famous 1955 Glenn Gould version. This eventually led to a period of a couple of weeks in which I listened to both…
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Those rumors of a Dylan Christmas album. And I’m inclined to agree with the reviewer that the album itself isn't a joke, either. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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But art is not only the desire to tell one’s secret; it is the desire to tell it and to hide it at the same time. And the secret is nothing more than the whole drama of the inner life. —Thornton Wilder I read Our Town when I was in high school and really liked…
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This was taken a couple of weeks ago on a rainy Sunday morning. I didn’t plan for it to be black and white. I was experimenting with some settings on my camera that are supposed to give better results in low light, which this was, and one of the settings gave things a strong and…
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To God first, of course, but: The Word of God is not brought to the ends of the world in a suitcase. We carry it in ourselves…. Once we have heard God’s Word, we no longer have the right not to accept it; once we have accepted it, we no longer have the right not…
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But it’s okay if you listen to them in the morning, or at night, or even on Monday. This is more of the stuff that I’ve intended to post for a while, and will perhaps make a nice change from the somewhat depressing previous two posts. Janet sent me the link to this live performance…
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…of love and marriage: some months ago I read and bookmarked a piece in City Journal called Love in the Time of Darwinism, intending to write about it later. That happens a lot, of course, as there are far more interesting things to write about than there is time to write. But in this case…
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I think I mentioned a week or two ago that I have a backlog of things I’ve wanted to post about, but haven’t had time for. This is one of them: at First Things, Mary Eberstadt analyzes an attack on marriage which was published in The Atlantic a few months ago. That piece is here,…
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I suspect that most readers of this blog will have more reason to give this advice about dealing with introverts than to take it. Sample passage: Extroverts are easy for introverts to understand, because extroverts spend so much of their time working out who they are in voluble, and frequently inescapable, interaction with other people.…
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As a child I found these fascinating. They look like some kind of candy. It’s a wonder I never ate one. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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