9 More Quotes from John Cage
People always think that there is something to understand. They imagine that the composer really had something in mind. Continue reading 9 More Quotes from John Cage
Month: September 2017
5 Quotes from John Cage
Each person, I repeat, is free to experience his own emotions. But they are no more important than ordering chicken! That means that you can’t dwell on them, you must learn how to detach yourself from them. Continue reading 5 Quotes from John Cage
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5 Days of Oscar Wilde – 5: Sonnet to Liberty
Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes
See nothing save their own unlovely woe,
Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know,—
But that the roar of thy Democracies,
Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies,
Mirror my wildest passions like the sea
And give my rage a brother—! Liberty! Continue reading 5 Days of Oscar Wilde – 5: Sonnet to Liberty
5 Days of Oscar Wilde – 4: The Grosvenor Gallery, 1877
That ‘Art is long and life is short’ is a truth which every one feels, or ought to feel; yet surely those who were in London last May, and had in one week the opportunities of hearing Rubenstein play the Sonata Impassionata, of seeing Wagner conduct the Spinning-Wheel Chorus from the Flying Dutchman, and of studying art at the Grosvenor Gallery, have very little to complain of as regards human existence and art-pleasures. Continue reading 5 Days of Oscar Wilde – 4: The Grosvenor Gallery, 1877
5 Days of Oscar Wilde – 3: The Tomb of Keats
THE TOMB OF KEATS Continue reading 5 Days of Oscar Wilde – 3: The Tomb of Keats
5 Days of Oscar Wilde – 2: The Devoted Friend
Welcome to day 2 of 5 Days of Oscar Wilde! Today we have The Devoted Friend. I hope you enjoy it. Continue reading 5 Days of Oscar Wilde – 2: The Devoted Friend
5 Days of Oscar Wilde – 1: The Nightingale and the Rose
Let’s have five days of reading (a handful of) the works of Oscar Wilde. Continue reading 5 Days of Oscar Wilde – 1: The Nightingale and the Rose
Author Interview: Lauren Jimerson
Today we have an interview with author Lauren Jimerson! What were you like at school? I was the quiet kid in school with a popular big brother. No one knew that I existed. Which writers inspire you? JK Rowling. Harper … Continue reading Author Interview: Lauren Jimerson
Giveaway: The Adversary’s Good News
Israfel has very kindly agreed to giveaway a signed copy of his book to one lucky Examining the Odd reader. Simply click here to enter. Good luck! Continue reading Giveaway: The Adversary’s Good News
Jay Snelling Art 