What are you reading now?

[Quijote]

Still reading Beethoven "Orpheus" concerto by Owen Jander. If anyone wanted to have references (if access to the score is difficult, or not being able to read music) we would need to define a common CD for the sake of timings.

[Michael]

I have designed an Avatar for Philip. My first attempt.
Hope you like it.

It beats Korky the Cat.

[Quijote]

Also still reading the latest Taruskin collection of "anti-utopian" essays mentioned on this forum (see passim). There are no score-based examples, and well worth the read. Is it so much to ask?

PS : Who is/was Korky the Cat?

[Michael]

Also still reading the latest Taruskin collection of "anti-utopian" essays mentioned on this forum (see passim). There are no score-based examples, and well worth the read. Is it so much to ask?

PS : Who is/was Korky the Cat?

PDG's avatar - a character in the Taruskin collection of "anti-utopian" essays - sorry, I meant "The Dandy", a well-known comic-book which every schoolboy in Ireland and England (and certainly Scotland) read in the forties, fifties and right up to the present day.
Really, the swings between esoteric erudition and extreme lunacy in this forum leaves one quite giddy.

[Quijote]

PDG's avatar - a character in the Taruskin collection of "anti-utopian" essays - sorry, I meant "The Dandy", a well-known comic-book which every schoolboy in Ireland and England (and certainly Scotland) read in the forties, fifties and right up to the present day.
Really, the swings between esoteric erudition and extreme lunacy in this forum leaves one quite giddy.

I know what extreme lunacy is, but I fail to see anything esoterically erudite in my postings. Even Beethoven had to study harmony and counterpoint several times in his life.

[Michael]

I know what extreme lunacy is, but I fail to see anything esoterically erudite in my postings. Even Beethoven had to study harmony and counterpoint several times in his life.

Why did you think I was referring to you when I mentioned esoteric erudition? Maybe it was extreme lunacy .......

[Quijote]

Why did you think I was referring to you when I mentioned esoteric erudition? Maybe it was extreme lunacy .......

Because you have accused me of esoteric/erudite irrelevance before (see passim).

[Bonn1827]

Who is "passim" anyway, Philip? Your Indian servant? He's lurking in the background of all your postings!

[Quijote]

Who is "passim" anyway, Philip? Your Indian servant? He's lurking in the background of all your postings!

Take a dictionary, and check it out for yourself. You were a high school teacher, I'm sure you know what such an object is. Don't you?

[PDG]

It beats Korky the Cat.

And no Gnasher mittens either. Upset me once more and I won't even send a card next Xmas...

[PDG]

PDG's avatar - a character in the Taruskin collection of "anti-utopian" essays - sorry, I meant "The Dandy", a well-known comic-book which every schoolboy in Ireland and England (and certainly Scotland) read in the forties, fifties and right up to the present day.
Really, the swings between esoteric erudition and extreme lunacy in this forum leaves one quite giddy.

Yes, I am rather erudite, thank you. Purrrr.......

[PDG]

Hey guys, this thread will close very shortly (5 page limit an' all)...

[Michael]

And no Gnasher mittens either. Upset me once more and I won't even send a card next Xmas...

Gnasher? Gnasher? Oh, yes - Dennis the Menace's dog, right?
(Quite over Philip's head, I'm afraid).

[Quijote]

Reading an article about the last speaker of an Andaman language who has recently died. Here is the link :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...t-speaker-dies

[Michael]

Reading an article about the last speaker of an Andaman language who has recently died. Here is the link :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...t-speaker-dies

One of the villains in the second Sherlock Holmes novel, "The Sign of Four" was an Andaman islander who killed his victims with a blowpipe full of poisoned darts. Hasn't got much to do with the above, but when I hear the word "Andaman" it conjures up images of that novel, which was commissioned by a publisher at a dinner with Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde. The upshot was the Holmes book and "The Picture of Dorian Gray".