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Lead Us Not Into Penn Station.

11-Jun-10

Lots of reading getting done here.  One book I read last week was Jill Jonnes’ Conquering Gotham, about the construction of Penn Station (ugh these titles; can’t we just call it “The Building of Penn Station”?).  The book makes a good read for the NYC enthusiast; part of the pleasure is deepening one’s knowledge of [...]

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Reflections of an Artist.

16-Mar-10

“My gift for composition is not the kind which will ever be ’successful.’  It is far too subjective for that.  When I was a boy I thought I would invent an altogether new art (it would be half-sculpture and half-music, I thought).  I began with sculpture and as you know that turned out disastrously.  But [...]

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Simone Weil on Christmas.

25-Dec-09

“Beauty is the experimental proof that incarnation is in fact possible.”

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