Here’s an anecdote to herald in 2011: ‘At one time Karlheinz [Stockhausen] and I would talk and exchange ideas. You know the story about the talk about singing? Well, he was writing a song for Cathy Berberian, who I later also wrote for, and he said, “if you were writing for a singer, would you write […]
[…] and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. […] — T.S. Eliot, ‘East Coker’, Four Quartets
By Chris
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Posted in Odds & Ends
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Also tagged T.S. Eliot
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To grasp the world of today we are using a language made for the world of yesterday. And the life of the past seems a better reflection of our nature, for the simple reason that it is a better reflection of our language. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (trans. William Rees), Wind, Sand and Stars
“If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.” I’ve just got round to finishing Tony Judt’s excellent essay on the importance of the state printed in the Guardian Review the weekend […]
By Chris
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Posted in Musings
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Also tagged politics, Tony Judt
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