Category: list
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Kronos Quartet is one of my favorite music groups. I first saw them perform live in 1989 or 1990, and as the cliche goes, they changed my life. I had… more ›
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According to the number of plays in my iTunes for all my music categorized under Classical, here are my Top 10 Composers: John Cage Karol Szymanowski Kevin Volans Samuel Barber… more ›
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I’ve studied language for most of life, even before I declared at the age of 10 that I wanted to be a writer. But decades later I’m unable to list… more ›
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A year ago David Bowie died. It broke my heart. Though I never met him or saw him perform live, he helped define the context of my life and thinking,… more ›
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I stopped writing. I stopped posting things on my lovely blog. But now I’ve decided to get back at it. To this end, I’ll be posting a mix of various… more ›
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The very few books I was able to read in 2016. Maybe the first two don’t really count: the first is the Polish text for my translation, which is the… more ›
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You don’t know any language well enough, not even your own. You hate reading. You like food, basic shelter, security, and you regularly waste your money on such extravagances. Get… more ›
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Song 2: “God’s Child” – David Byrne and Selena This is what I remember about Montréal: Spring Break 2001, drinking Turkish coffee (by way of Beirut) at Salam’s flat. Later… more ›
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Nietzsche writes in Ecce Homo that it is something like a sickness to sit down at the beginning of the day to read instead of taking a brisk walk first.… more ›