why must itself up every of a park by e.e. cummings why must itself up every of a park anus stick some quote statue unquote to prove that a hero equals any jerk who was afraid to dare to answer "no"? quote citizens unquote might otherwise forget(to err is human;to forgive divine)that if the quote state unquote says "kill" killing is an act of christian love. "Nothing" in 1944 AD "can stand against the argument of mil itary necessity"(generalissimo e) and echo answers "there is no appeal from reason"(freud)--you pays your money and you doesn't take your choice. Ain't freedom grand
And the days are not full enough by Ezra Pound
And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass
Reddit's classicalmusic sub-reddit has proposed listening to a symphony a week for the duration of 2013. Here is the final list. Starting with Bruckner's 8th.
"The group of artists and scientists that had so far done least was the one that had attracted the greatest interest - and the greatest alarm. This was the team working on ‘total identification’. The history of the cinema gave the clue to their actions. First, sound, then colour, then stereoscopy, then Cinerama, had made the old ‘moving pictures’ more and more like reality itself. Where was the end of the story? Surely, the final stage would be reached when the audience forgot it was an audience, and became part of the action. To achieve this would involve stimulation of all the senses, and perhaps hypnosis as well, but many believed it to be practical. When the goal was attained, there would be an enormous enrichment of human experience. A man could become - for a while, at least - any other person, and could take part in any conceivable adventure, real or imaginary. He could even be plant or animal, if it proved possible to capture and record the sense impressions of other living creatures. And when the ‘programme’ was over, he would have acquired a memory as vivid as any experience in his actual life indeed, indistinguishable from reality itself.
The prospect was dazzling. Many also found it terrifying and hoped that the enterprise would fail. But they knew in their hearts that once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization..."
Arthur C. Clarke in Childhood's End, published in 1952.
This painting is famed for the anamorphic skull at the bottom.
There Is Pleasure In The Pathless Woods (from Childe Harold) by Lord Byron There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
"The Erinyes [called the Furies in Ancient Rome] were the punishers of sinners, called 'those who walk in darkness.' Weeping tears of blood and hissing with hair of vipers, they would descend like a storm. As long as there was sin in the world, they could not be banished." ~ Aeschylus
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Remorse of Orestes, 1862
I'm starting to measure my life by the decennial anniversaries of my favourite albums.














