November 2011
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Everything in the title above except the question mark is in the title of this piece at Front Porch Republic. I'm not so sure that movies of the 1930s and '40s show us the less-affluent life that's coming our way, but be that as it may, I like the reflections on the quality of those movies. …
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Available now at eMusic.
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In the art school there were all the conventional unconventionals–long-haired men, short-haired women, both at the time considered to be shocking and delighting in it. They were all interested in ideas more than in things, and most of them were kind, provided that they were not asked to be kind to someone who was obviously…
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If a composition has no strangeness, there is no virtue in its stability. Stability without strangeness is the work of a commonplace hand; strangeness without stability, of an immature hand. —Gong Xian Quoted by Eve Tushnet.
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Weekend Music My friend Robert sent these to me a few days ago, and it was not until last night that I had a chance to listen to them. So, though it may seem perverse to label as "weekend music" a song as gloomy as this one, and more so to include two versions of…
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…is so very much justified by this: I am not a very adventurous person, physically, but I would like to do that. I suppose "fun" isn't exactly the right word… There's a sort of strange intriguing Dominican tie-in on the YouTube page.
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It seems like a good idea: instead of rule by people who had no more qualification than that they were the offspring of the previous ruler, or someone closely connected to the previous ruler, or simply the strongest, meanest, and most cunning, we should let the country be ruled by smart people. But mere intelligence…
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Sunday Night Journal — November 7, 2011 For many years I’ve thought of writing some sort of lengthy appreciation of W.S. Merwin, but the project has never made it to the top of my list, and it’s time I accepted the possibility that it never will. Last year when he was appointed Poet Laureate I…
Light On Dark Water 