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Poem: San Francisco (from FB)
I love you for your summers, San Francisco The ones that start September-time, or if It’s hot that year, late August, when they leave The...
Bathos (from FB)
From Pope's Peri Bathous, a mock treatise on how to attain Bathos, or "sinking" in poetry, meaning how to write exceptionally mediocre...
Music: McGoldrick - Leaving Uist, Lochaber Badger (from FB)
Three Guys Start Playing Irish Music What Happens Next Will Amaze You
Ovadiah HaGer and the Earliest Notated Jewish Music (from FB)
I just came across something too interesting to leave buried in the interwebs, so here it is. A little over a century ago, scholars...
Music: Bach - Partita in A Minor (from FB)
Beautiful stuff. Love the phrasing. Might have liked it if he slowed down just a teensy-weensy bit more on the descent every now and then...
Music: Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby (from FB)
This is my favorite version of Bill Evans' Waltz for Debby. Outshines the ones on his albums. Recorded for a BBC programme (I love...
Of Horses and Hebrew (from FB)
If you wanted a good horse in 18th-century southern Germany, you had to come prepared. Horse-trading was a pretty Jewish line of...
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