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the sins of a gospel … 1 Aug 2013 | 01:38 am
The following is an excerpt from Essayists and Prophets (Bloom's Literary Criticism 20th Anniversary Collection), a fantastic piece of literary criticism that I have been enjoying reading for a few da...
From God or the Devil: The Debate over Music … 10 May 2013 | 06:06 am
The lawfulness of music has been the subject of an ongoing debate from the time of the advent of Islam. Opponents and proponents alike have accepted the basic concept that music works on the emotions;...
Music in Arab Life … 10 May 2013 | 12:49 am
The initial encounter of Easterners and Westerners with each other’s music did not, in most cases, result in love at first sight, or rather sound. Instead of poetical associations or feelings of delig...
on color 29 Jul 2012 | 10:20 pm
I understand how scarlet can differ from crimson because I know that the smell of an orange is not the smell of a grapefruit. I can also conceive that colors have shades and guess what shades are. In ...
Untitled 15 Feb 2011 | 08:08 pm
THE WORLD IS COMING high and wide, in the vacant air . . . straight through the four white walls of the real until it no longer appears different from what the eye sees. (Ronald Johnson, "Poem,"...
Unitarian Easter 9 Feb 2011 | 10:18 am
Entering here, I hope the confetti Can jazz up a burden The pastor, for instance, calling birds, head back, Or dancing an old French dance, hopping and kicking. And now the congregation winds around...
Captain Beefheart's Ten Commandments of Guitar Playing 2 Jan 2011 | 02:57 am
1. Listen to the birds That's where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but ....
How not to worship . . . 19 Oct 2010 | 02:26 pm
You have felt, doubtless, at least those of you who have been brought up in any habit of reverence, that every time when I in this letter have used an American expression, or aught like one, there ca...
a parable ... 3 Feb 2009 | 07:58 am
PART I A PARABLE I am today twenty-five hundred years old. I have been dead for nearly as many years. My place of birth was Athens; my grave was not far from those of Xenophon and Plato, within view...
an Ambrose Bierce keeper . . . 18 Jan 2009 | 04:30 pm
I keep an Ambrose Bierce quote widget over on my other blog. I wanted to keep this particular quote handy because I think it relates to some of the things I have been thinking and blogging about latel...
