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to autumn
Pushkin’s favorite month was October. Spring starts out wet and raw and often wintry at the outset. Fall starts out just plain nice and within a couple of weeks or … Continue reading
Posted in literature, musings (random daily thoughts), nature
Tagged Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Pushkin “Autumn”, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Александр Пушкин Осень, Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, Henry David Thoreau, John Keats, Roger Smith, Roger W. Smith, Shakespeare It was a Lover and his Lass
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Mozart, 3 German Dances; Handel, Water Music Suite (arranged by Sir Hamilton Harty)
They are posted here on a scratchy LP from the 1960’s that a friend digitalized for me. Conducted by Herbert von Karajan. ***************************************************** My older brother gave me this LP as a … Continue reading
Gavin Bryars, “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet”
A well known early work of the contemporary English composer Gavin Bryars is “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet” (1971). I feel compelled to post it here because it is a unique and stirring example of religious music, … Continue reading
Çalikuşu (The Autobiography of a Turkish Girl) now available in a complete, new English translation
The book is available on Amazon: Çalikuşu (The Wren) by Reşat Nuri Güntekin The Complete English Translation Parts 1-4 Translated from The Turkish by Sir Wyndham Deedes Part … Continue reading
Posted in literature
Tagged Angel Garcia, Aydan Şener, ნარჩიტა, Çalikuşu (The Wren), Çalıkuşu Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Çalıquşu Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Королёк - птичка певчая, Пташка співуча Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Птичка певчая, Птичка певчая Reşat Nuri Güntekin Игорь Печенев, Чучулигата Решат Нури Гюнтекин, Grmuša Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Jeremy Wyndham Deedes, Korolek Ptichka Pevchaja Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Korolek Ptichka Pevchaja. C Halykushu Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Linnuke Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Mazputniņš Rešāds Nurī Gintekīns, or the Wren, Pitulicea Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Roger Smith, Roger W. Smith, Sir Wyndham Deedes, The Autobiography of a Turkish Girl, The Autobiography of a Turkish Girl Reşat Nuri Güntekin, The Autobiography of A Turkish Girl: Çalıkuşu, The Wren Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Tugrul Zure, Wyndham Deedes, Čiauškutė by Reşat Nuri Güntekin
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pleonasm
Pleonasm is defined as the use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning, either as a fault of style or for emphasis. For example: see with one’s eyes. From which have, an as example, pleonastic word … Continue reading
Posted in rhetoric and style
Tagged Jan Lannering, John Tillotson, pleonasm, pleonastic word pairs, Roger Smith, Roger W. Smith
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the music of the spheres (linguistically speaking)
I live in the borough of Queens in New York City. In a metropolitan area with the most ethnically diverse zip codes in the nation, and in a City where far more languages are spoken than in any … Continue reading
Posted in general interest, musings (random daily thoughts), photographic
Tagged Roger Smith, Roger W. Smith
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