Weekend 448.0

Posted on June 29, 2019 by Winston Smith

(1) Academics ignore the anniversary of 1984 because they know they’re living it out (Washington Examiner) (2) How disease, war and a remote Scottish island inspired George Orwell’s ‘1984’ (NY Continue Reading →

Weekend 447.0

Posted on June 16, 2019 by Winston Smith

Almost 1 month since my last post. I just finished Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History by Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins and now have a used copy of Continue Reading →

Weekend 446.0

Posted on May 18, 2019 by Winston Smith

What happened to the British? A quote from Gibraltar by Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins. “It is not improbable that this is a stratagem of Admiral Barcelo’s, to harass, and Continue Reading →

Weekend 445.0 (Terminus)

Posted on April 20, 2019 by Winston Smith

(1) A quote from Absolutely On Music by Haruki Murakami: “In that sense, Seiji Ozawa is simultaneously an unschooled ‘child of nature’ and a fountain of deep, practical wisdom; a Continue Reading →

Weekend 443.0 (Fellow Travelers)

Posted on February 16, 2019 by Winston Smith

“Driven out of paradise by You and exiled in a distant land, I cannot return by myself unless You, O Lord, come to meet me in my wandering. My return Continue Reading →

Weekend 440.0

Posted on December 1, 2018 by Winston Smith

(1) One final, musically inspired quote, from Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami: “‘It’s an usual opera [Der Rosenkavalier]. The plot’s critical, of course, like with all operas, but with this Continue Reading →

Weekend 439.0 (Andantino con moto)

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Winston Smith

(1) Dvořák Carnival, Op. 92 (YouTube) Heard this last night at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. The performance on YouTube is from Royal Albert Hall in 2012. (1a) Limestone Photo Continue Reading →

Weekend 437.0

Posted on November 3, 2018 by Winston Smith

“The music was somehow addictive, as he had warned. An uninterrupted stream of emotion, Musical instruments in colorful profusion. It was Strauss who boasted, ‘I can describe anything in music, Continue Reading →

Weekend 433.0

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Winston Smith

(1) A cool link between Nolan Bushnell and Retta Scott. The quote is from They Drew As They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney’s Musical Years (The 1940s – Part Continue Reading →

Weekend 421.0

Posted on May 12, 2018 by Winston Smith

“User anonymity and free speech would become things of the past. The moment IOI took it over, the OASIS would cease to be the open-source virtual utopia I’d grown up Continue Reading →

Limestone Roof

Our history now descends from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust.

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