Thursday, October 31, 2019
let us drink to aesthetic dystopia...here's to the muse...in absentia
....art museums have existed for barely two hundred years. They bulked so large in the nineteenth century, and are so much part of our lives today that we forget they have imposed upon the spectator a wholly new attitude towards the work of art. For they have tended to estrange the works they bring together from their original functions and to transform even portraits into ‘pictures'.
Andre' Malraux --1940
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019
o that pernicious monster within
...(sic) barbarism is never finally defeated; given propitious circumstances, men and women who seem quite orderly will commit every conceivable atrocity. The danger does not come merely from habitual hooligans; we are all potential recruits for anarchy. Unremitting effort is needed to keep men living together at peace; there is only a margin of energy left over for experiment, however beneficent. Once the prisons of the mind have been opened,
the orgy is on.
Evelyn Waugh
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Saturday, October 26, 2019
Uhlmann's Razor
“When stupidity seems a sufficient explanation,
there is no need for recourse
to any more elaborate analysis.”
...Occam is writhing in purgatory
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
found poem # 456,897
Please do not
Play the Piano
......do you mean....never?
Bill Evans would defy the command
i imagined sitting there, opening the cover
make the little grand playable
and just sit there in hommage to john Cage
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019
to see by faith
To one who has faith,
no explanation is necessary.
To one without faith,
no explanation is possible.
-St. Thomas Aquinas
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Monday, October 14, 2019
just found poem
# 7,998
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