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The Art of Missing
IN ONE OF Aesop’s fables, “The Rogue and the Oracle,” a man approaches the Oracle at Delphi. In his hand, which he keeps hidden under a cloak, he has a little Continue reading
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On Location
IN 1915, the vagabond poet Vachel Lindsay delivered a spectacularly wrong prophecy about the future of film. In his book The Art of the Moving Picture, Lindsay predicted that soon enough, Continue reading
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The Piccolo and the Pocket Grouse
I. NIGHT BLACKBIRD SONG, for two piccolos (one doubling on flute) and three percussion (1999) The piece starts with a bang, as the long, drawn-out cry of piccolos brings the listener Continue reading
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Feed the Hunger
MY DYSTOPIAN FUTURE would be rampant with ticks. Aggressive ticks. Not like the ones that cling to the top of slender grass stalks, waiting passively for your warm-blooded ankle to brush Continue reading
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Ice Ice Baby
THERE’S A YOUTUBE VIDEO of an Inuit rapper you got to check out. Two Inuit women wearing miniskirts and sealskin fur vests are throat singing on a stage lit with sherbet-colored Continue reading