The ontologically-challenged Librarian had not realised that labels are more than a joke.
Future categories may have a membership of more than one item.
(the IT consultant)
01/04/2007
freedom of speech
The IT consultant has lifted the need to sign in with a google account in order to leave comments. Now there is just word verification to avoid automatic spamming.
Speak.
Speak.
31/03/2007
faking it
The differences between faking, copying and imitating, or building on the work and advances of others, or working 'in the style of'... or being part of a movement, seem very blurred and hard to define. Do we 'stand on the shoulders of giants' because we are pygmies unable to get any where without using others as a ladder? Or want to pretend to be giants too and get the unearned kudos? Or is it the whole basis of advance in understanding and in art?
Written out
Reading Brooklyn Follies I found a list of how young people were who achieved literary feats. Well, how young they were when they died: Poe, 40; Kafka, 40; Marlowe, 29; Keats, 25; Georg Buchner, 23; Byron, 36; Emily Bronte, 30; Charlotte Bronte, 39; Shelley, 29; Wilfred Owen, 25; Leopardi, Garcia Lorca, Apollinaire, 39; both Pascal and Flannery O'Connor at 39; Rimbaud, 37 ; Chatterton 17.
That's just the writers though - think of the musicians , Pergolesi, Mozart....
Still, organists and harpsichordists all seem to have kept going to enormous ages so it must be composing that does it. Philosophers and economists are tough too. No-one is to take up writing novels, plays or poetry , or composing before they are already old. Perhaps it's living in garrets that does it?
That's just the writers though - think of the musicians , Pergolesi, Mozart....
Still, organists and harpsichordists all seem to have kept going to enormous ages so it must be composing that does it. Philosophers and economists are tough too. No-one is to take up writing novels, plays or poetry , or composing before they are already old. Perhaps it's living in garrets that does it?
28/03/2007
word endings
While typing voci bianche I remembered that I had intended to preserve the words on the butcher's sun shade as an example of how trikki endings can be in Italian but I forgot to copy them down and now the sun shade is gone. Can anyone remember?
something like Bottega delle Carni di Mara. might that be right?
something like Bottega delle Carni di Mara. might that be right?
colours
Castellina is to be painted the colour of Monsoglio, with the inside a lighter shade of pale, unless anyone has objections?Floors waxed red, ceilings natural waxed chestnut with pianelle waxed to match floors. No other colours (oh, pietra serena lightly lucido in its natural colours).
They are clearing the Sooty.
They are clearing the Sooty.
chorales
Can any Library user formerly in the voci bianche remember which chorale Bridge over Troubled Water is based on?
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