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Music versus Meaning
Finnegans Wake was another intimidating work singled out by Caedmon. According to the album’s liner notes, speech acts as both “concert” and “crutch” in helping readers to appreciate Joyce’s linguistic sonority: “With a work like Finnegans Wake, it may well … Continue reading
Listing Two Ways of Listening
Phil HallGuthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, a Selected Collage To listen they lean forward kids dowhen you read to them they listthey know how to listen but adults think of things they have to dothey lean back tick off items on a … Continue reading
Voices Preserved
“Playing” – one in a series – this oral history piece collects the voices of older adults reminiscing about the games they played as children. Brilliantly crafted in a way to evoke the intercutting of neighbourhood sounds. http://www.harbordvillagehistory.ca/storypost/14.html While out … Continue reading
As If Donning a Rococo Wig: Listening and Noting
Would there be sampling here? Fanfarinette / Rameau Holberg Suite, Op. 40: III. Gavotte / Greig I unfortunately don’t read music and go by my faulty ear but there may here be a musical intertext. What the ear discovered, the … Continue reading
Quid Pro Quo Quandary
The problem with fundamentalists, monotheist or not, is their intolerance of the unbeliever. The problem of unbelievers is that intolerance on the part of the faithful who do not abide by the precepts of their faith to practice tolerance. Which … Continue reading
lacuna lacrimosa
$$ GReaT Mary, mother of JesUs $$ This post is inspired by Lindsay Blackwell who has a penchant of !@#$% language. We were talking about the struggle for a four day work week. And we noticed on the QWERTY keyboard … Continue reading
American Style Pasta
Noodlephant Written by Jacob Kramer Illustrated by K-Fai Steele Published by Enchanted Lion Books You will be enchanted by the creativity that goes into the pasta making and the endearing civil disobedience. After being dragged through kangaroo court, jailed in … Continue reading
First Lesson: Proper Names
T.H. White The Sword in the Stone Merlyn is not yet officially Wart’s tutor but the lessons have begun. Two points to capture the implications of this scene: 1) Arthur is nicknamed Wart, (rhymes with Art, short for his real … Continue reading
Judith Kerr on Mog the Cat: images and words
From an episode of BBC’s Desert Island Discs https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07kjbsv At 22:55 into the interview Sue Lawley: The text and the pictures, your illustrations are very interwoven aren’t they? Sometimes one takes the narrative lead; sometimes the other. Kerr: I started … Continue reading
Venture a Voicing
Dare you to read this aloud (or at least subvoclaize): The experience of reading poetry aloud when you don’t fully understand it is a curious and complicated one. It’s like suddenly discovering that you can play the organ. Rolling swells … Continue reading