The Sound of a City

I have been here two times befor, and still find NY to be a fantastic city! But still, I am tempted to side with Thoreau: I think that [people who live in the city] deserve some credit for not having all committed suicide long ago. For an art-lover NY is full of wonderful surprises –…

As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency

   some of the quotes in this post are sampled from brain pickings, surf over and have a look! * * * In my opinion every year could & should be a John Cage year, this year actually is. John Cage (1912-1992)  John Cage meets D.T. Suzuki in Japan, 1962 I once asked Aragon, the historian,…

Airdrop

Last weeks visit to Jeanette Winterson’s pages made me very curious about the new Woolf editions from Vintage. Since The Waves is the best novel ever written, and since I’m in the middle of re-reading Mrs Dalloway just now, I found no reason not to add these two new editions to my collection… The third book…