Signs of Hope
Apr. 26th, 2008 09:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
porphyry1. Took M. to the park yesterday and saw these:
It is very rare to see swans here: usually once every two or three years. But this pair seems to be settled in. Perhaps we will soon see a flotilla of cygnets.
2. A new car, but still no disc drive in the computer. For whatever reason it never occured to me to lsiten to CDs in the old car (perhaps becuase the wavering speaker mounts introduce an annoying vibrato to the fortissimo passages). That mistake is corrected now. The first thing we heard was Vivialdi's Orlando Furioso, the old recording with Marilynn Horne which I much prefer to the new one with Jorousky (or whatever his name is). Listening to these discs is especially satisfying since we received them as a gift from our mostly absent friend Leopold_Paula. I used to have originals of them years ago, but the silver substance of the discs themselves began to disintergrate, developing many large holes, a thing I've never seen happen to another CD. The encouraging part was that when the final chorus played, A. piped from the back seat demanding to hear it again. Perhaps there is hope he can be persuaded to listen to something other than his Jerry Lee 'trucking music.'
Pajama Update
They turned out to be Speed Racer themed.
It is very rare to see swans here: usually once every two or three years. But this pair seems to be settled in. Perhaps we will soon see a flotilla of cygnets.
2. A new car, but still no disc drive in the computer. For whatever reason it never occured to me to lsiten to CDs in the old car (perhaps becuase the wavering speaker mounts introduce an annoying vibrato to the fortissimo passages). That mistake is corrected now. The first thing we heard was Vivialdi's Orlando Furioso, the old recording with Marilynn Horne which I much prefer to the new one with Jorousky (or whatever his name is). Listening to these discs is especially satisfying since we received them as a gift from our mostly absent friend Leopold_Paula. I used to have originals of them years ago, but the silver substance of the discs themselves began to disintergrate, developing many large holes, a thing I've never seen happen to another CD. The encouraging part was that when the final chorus played, A. piped from the back seat demanding to hear it again. Perhaps there is hope he can be persuaded to listen to something other than his Jerry Lee 'trucking music.'
Pajama Update
They turned out to be Speed Racer themed.
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Date: 2008-04-26 04:30 pm (UTC)"For herein the invention of one of the late poets is proper, and doth well enrich the ancient fiction: for he feigneth that at the end of the thread or web of every man's life there was a little medal containing the person's name, and that Time waited upon the shears, and as soon as the thread was cut, caught the medals and carried them to the river Lethe; and about the bank there were many birds flying up and down, that would get the medals and carry them in their beak a little while, and then let them fall into the river: only there were a few swans, which if they got a name, would carry it to a temple where it was consecrate" (Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book Two, the passage about Biographies; he's alluding to Orlando XXXIV f).
Glad you (and even A!) liked the CD. :-)
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Date: 2008-04-26 08:35 pm (UTC)