Magnificent Octopus

When I was 17, I would ride the bus up to the university. For art and culture. By myself. I'm not sure why I thought that would be a coo...

I love Beethoven! There's a new book out, Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph , by Jan Swafford, which seems to be striking a chord with th...

Beethoven's music is Hegelian philosophy: it is at the same time truer than this; i.e., it contains the conviction that the self replica...

I went crazy for Beethoven quite unexpectedly. Witold Gombrowicz on Beethoven : Quartets! Sixteen quartets! It is one thing to dip occas...

I thought all that but mostly I thought about ten million dollars. I thought about each of those dollars all the way back to the office. In ...

A Naked Singularity , by Sergio De La Pava. People are gushing over this book. Big Read at Conversational Reading. Chapter 1, I felt rush...

I read somewhere that the music I like now is the music I'll like for the rest of my life. My fucking brain or something like that won...

The moon ! Did you see the moon!?! Helena offers to show me the yoga positions she knows. She assembles herself into a lotus, palms together...