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Monday, May 11th, 2020
So the ten books that first occur to me as "books that have profoundly influenced my worldview" (whatever those words mean) are, and I posted them in the order that they occurred to me yesterday and today:
- Snow (Orhan Pamuk, Turkey 2002)
- Bicameral Mind (Jaynes, US 1976)
- INFINITE JEST (dfw, US 1996)
- El arte de la resurrección (Hernán Rivera Letelier, Chile 2010)
- Bleak House (Dickens, UK 1853)
- The Autograph Man (Smith, UK 2002)
- Manituana (Wu Ming, Italy 2007)
- Debt (Graeber, US 2011)
- Regeneration Through Violence (Slotkin, US 1973)
- The Unknown University (Bolaño, Chile 2011)
(9 should probably have an asterisk by it, I don't think I ever actually read the whole book.)
I'm happy with this list. I would recommend any of these books highly, were a friend to come to me looking for reading material. Maybe 9. should trade places with #11, "Blindness" by Saramago. I have blogged many of these reads, not all.
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Sunday, May 10th, 2020
From The Modesto Kid and his Imaginary Ragtime Ensemble,
Score beneath the fold
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
I think I need to laminate the brass viola's neck out of two pieces, so the grain in the upper neck and pegbox/scroll can be straight. I do not think it will be strong enough going at an angle across the grain as it is currently laid out [cf]. I have a pretty clear mental picture of what the joint should look like.
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Monday, April 27th, 2020
I've laid out the neck for my brass viola. Next step will be cutting the outline and the tenon. I will leave the full thickness of the board in place until the neck fits into the viola body straight and lined up with the tail.
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Saturday, April 25th, 2020
"Epistolary Verse", the review began, "is neither." "Buckle up," he whistled, and read further.
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Monday, April 13th, 2020
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Sunday, April 12th, 2020
A couple of songs from the Imaginary Ragtime Ensemble.
Imaginary String Band appearing courtesy of Noteflight
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Monday, March 30th, 2020
Will you dance?
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Sunday, March 29th, 2020
here, now
here, now
here, now
here, now
here, now
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Reread. Go back. The letters,
Static, swerve, collide;
Shatter.
Your mental notes,
Your scribbled annotations
Useless now, incomprehensible;
Crystal edifice of abstraction brought low.
posted morning of March 29th, 2020: Respond
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