A good reporter thinking in what couldn’t be deemed his finest hour was complaining the other day that the net has killed serendipity. To that I say, stuff and nonsense. The fact is, it’s alive and well and has only done a bit of shape-shifting — just as Serendip, the inspiration for that gorgeous word, [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Music and words’
March 16, 2009
On books as Bondmobiles . . . and a translation web site
When books become Bondmobiles, I expect that writers will be trans-textual getaway artists cobbling together scribbles, recorded music, spoken words, . . . moving and still pictures – some of all that newly minted, and the rest borrowed, licensed or filched.
Bondmobiles – who dat? You’ll know exactly what I mean if, like me, you hadn’t [...]
February 12, 2009
Don’t shoot the piano player, . . . I have a much better idea
Bloggers burning with community spirit who helped me to test WordPress’s polling software by voting in a violin vs. piano survey last month will want to know this: three of a staggering turnout of sixteen voters didn’t prefer either instrument to the other. Two opinionators, I have no idea who, volunteered reckonings of aural perfection [...]
February 5, 2009
Poetry is the sister of music, not science or mathematics
Every attempt at certain arguments reminds some of us of watching a particularly grisly and unfortunate accident in progress. Just because they are mentioned in the same sentences by the great and wise does not mean that these three things go together: scholarship, science and poetry.
Don Quixote, said to be the world’s first novel, [...]
January 19, 2009
Just a test: vote for a musical preference
This is a shockingly simple-minded test of a new possibility – voting! Would anyone reading here please click in the virtual polling booth? . . . even if you don’t have an opinion on the subject – because nothing but the accordion or snare drum means anything to you ? . . . Thank you.
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