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Remarks, mainly on books and music. "Remarks are not literature." -- Gertrude Stein
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Love: Da Capo (opens the original)
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Some time back, at my Light On Dark Water blog, I started a series of posts with the above subtitle. It was an intermittent thing and it didn’t get very far. The description referred to the fact that in the house where I lived at the time I had two record shelves in a closet in the room which I will call, for lack of a better word, my office. Each of these—a stack of four shelves a couple of feet wide—contained several hundred LPs, one all classical music and the other non-classical. The former,
Dickens: Little Dorrit (opens the original)
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As usual with Dickens, we have here both sentimentality, for color and flavor, and, for structure, highly improbable but dramatically essential coincidences. I think I’ll just accept these as the conventions of a style, as we do with opera, and not bother complaining about them. Perhaps there is some justification for looking at it that way, apart from consideration of Dickens himself. The other novels of the period with which I’m familiar don’t have these faults—Middlemarch, for instance—but th
The Cocteau Twins: Victorialand (opens the original)
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A: In its jacket, on a shelf, untouched and unheard. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="500" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZsS9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2
Dickens: Hard Times (opens the original)
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Have you ever leaned on something that you thought was solid, only to stumble or fall when it gives way at a touch? Or tensed yourself for the effort of picking up a box that you expected to be heavy, only to discover that it’s empty and weighs almost nothing? That’s more or less how I felt reading Hard Times. Another analogy, one I should perhaps be ashamed to make: I almost felt that I had been misled by false advertising. In short, this novel is not what I expected. That of course is not only
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