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I’ve amped up my hunger for vengeance
I finished The Count of Monte Cristo — oddly at the exact moment he and his ploys finished off all his enemies. This was good. So what now? A need for bloody violence was roiling in my gut and precisely … Continue reading
Posted in Crime & Punishment, Culture, Guns in the U.S. of A., MAGA, Trumpism
Tagged Chamber Music Society, Edmund Dantes, John Wick, The Count of Monte Cristo, vengeance
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The eternal mystery which carries me through the days
The New York Times’s obit for pianist Radu Lupu, sent me back to adolescence and a conversation with my mother. She had been considering what careers might suit her oldest child. (Sorry, Mom, for putting this into parentheses, but years … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Mysteries of Life, The Facts of Life
Tagged Chamber Music Society, classical music, David Finckel, Galileo, Galileo Galilei, Johan Sebastian Bach, JS Bach, Lincoln Center, mathematics, Radu Lupu, serious music, Sviatoslav Richter, the universal language, Vincenzo Galilei, Well Tempered Clavier, Wu Han
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