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TIL: Oakley Hall wrote the libretto for an opera based on Stegner's Angle of Repose (w/ composer Andrew Imbrie). It had a premiere run with the San Francisco Opera in 1976 but, in spite of the promising response of critics and audiences, that was its one and only staging.

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went for a stroll this afternoon in the Sixty Acre Wood. As I was leaving I stopped to pick some blackberries and an older Indian woman asked me what I had found. She had no idea what blackberries were so I gave her a few. You should've seen the way her eyes lit up.

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I pruned my Rosa mulliganii a few weeks ago and thought I'd see what would happen if I stuck cuttings in a marmalade jar (I've already potted two)

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it's a scene in French Lieutenant's Woman

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Meryl Streep herself is always inspiring, but when I first heard her playing the Prelude in C minor* I had to promptly learn it myself (I was in college then). *it wasn't really her

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Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Lewes brings in a lot of local color, including a large cast of characters. Lewes obviously enjoyed his time there, made me want to visit.

Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lewes and his almost-wife George Eliot spent some months in Weimar researching this. I'm not sure I can detect Eliot's hand in it, but she is credited with a large share in the preparation of the book.

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Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I read The Life and Works of Goethe, by G. H. Lewes (1855). This is a warm and admiring (though not uncritical) biography which benefited from interviews with still-living intimates of the great man. Lewes is a smart critic, too, and does a superb job of yoking the works to the windings of his life.

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Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

oops, my reply was in response to the one cover shown in your article, which was a self-published translation. I already have the Levine & Wieniewska translations - that's probably enough.

Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'll have to look out for this. Looks like one of Schulz's drawings on the cover!

Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I listened to Ensemble Organum's pre-Gregorian 'Chants de l'Église de Rome' (1986). Modal, with deep, resonant drones in the bass, and microtonal ornamentation. Some interesting listening while I continue to catalog my music. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' just wanted to capture it before the fall weather gets to it.

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Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I had a look around her website - I'm going to see if my library has any of her books.

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yeah, he's cool. Did I mention he's a distant cousin? shared colonial-era Hitchcock ancestors.

thanks, it's been ages since I've read anything by Jay McInerny. I'll have a look at it this evening.

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I've just been looking over Paniagua's discography to see if there's something else I should have...

I remember being 'bowled over' by Sheltering Sky half a lifetime ago (just recently re-read it, too)

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14 Dance for Agmemenon Kevin Dissapears (Time Bandits)

couldn't help but recall the music at the court of Agamemnon after Kevin inadvertently saves the king's life (Time Bandits, 1981) youtu.be/IJGtNUYaT4Y?...

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YouTube video by Thomas Korn

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music for an hour's chores: Musique De La Grèce Antique (1979). Scholarly insofar as possible, the rest is 'informed' imagination. My chores somehow assumed hieratic gestures. youtube.com/playlist?lis... or: open.spotify.com/album/1ZTgQo...

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speaking generally about the series: I haven't been bothered by any of the translations so far. But you have to search to find any reference to the translators, though. Very stingy with the credits (usually a nod at the end of the piece).

I thought the translations were fine (my first readings of these so I don't have comparanda). The editor, Frank Ryder, translated the Iphigenia and 'adapted' (whatever that means) earlier translations by Anna Swanwick (1850) and Charles Passage (1966) for the Egmont and Tasso, respectively.

Tasso catches the poet at a moment when, having been the golden lad, the prize poet at Duke Alfonso's court, his mental illness begins to interfere with his relationships.

Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I read three plays by Goethe: Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, & Torquato Tasso. The first is a stirring episode from the Dutch struggle for independence, the second would have done Sophocles proud. The third was a lot of long-winded folderol with unamiable characters, the title character worst of all.

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check with your dentist's office?

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Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy Michaelmas, or perhaps more à propos, Fiesta de San Miguel (📷 Mission San Miguel Arcángel, San Miguel CA)

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Else Marie Pade - Et Glasperlespil (full album)

Else Marie Pade, Danish composer of electronic/concrete music. Began composing while a prisoner of the Gestapo. I listened to this album while beginning to catalog my music collection. youtube.com/watch?v=nR1sbtt9ItE or: open.spotify.com/album/2BbTzg81WU8ft1vMRF00qm

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YouTube video by When Dubs Cry

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Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stirrings Still, by Samuel Beckett (1988), is a 10 minute text, max. But I followed along with Paul Griffith's ruminative 64-minute reading, accompanied by Trevor Bača's Beckettian soundscape (w/ JACK Quartet, ECM 2026). open.spotify.com/album/1JHXIA... or: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Samuel Beckett: Stirrings Still (with music by Trevor Bača) - Album by Trevor Bača | Spotify

Trevor Bača · album · 2026 · 18 songs

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I don't follow Open Culture but I had this bookmarked - one of you fine folk must have reposted it!

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Else Marie Pade - Et Glasperlespil (full album)

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YouTube video by When Dubs Cry

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Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

do you know discogs-dot-com? It aspires to be a catalog/discography/wikipedia of everything ever recorded (and has way more album info than Amazon even tries to have). There's a little side bar where you can buy and sell. I have found some great deals (of course some stuff is beyond my budget..)

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I used to browse more before they put a big chunk of their collection into offsite storage. I used to find interesting things that hadn't been checked out for decades (or ever).

I borrow from U of Wash, courtesy of an alumni card. But the alumni card costs $50/yr

I had one in my Biblio queue but it's gone... ;)

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Might give the minestrone a try, if I can figure out the Italian.

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It has been in print 'ininterrottamente' ever since. Mine is a 1926 29th edition (100 years old!), most of the pages still uncut. It has a bookseller's label - Ulrico Hoepli, Milan, bookseller to the Royal Household - and was evidently a gift from Lydia to her sister-in-law Emma.

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Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pelligrino Artusi's 1891 'La Scienza in cucina e l'Arte di mangiar bene,' the first cookbook to create a national cuisine drawing from every region of Italy. Artusi added more recipes with each edition until his death in 1911 at which time it had reached its definitive version at 790 recipes.

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thanks, but I'll be getting a copy of CCHR. Cool to know it's in there.

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Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That one's on my TBR pile. I saved your essay - I think that'd make a good syllabus for future reading.