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Anna playing

New piano coming soon…

I have lately been reminded of this

he gets into his stride, or rather his lurch, announcing every stale revelation of the newly enlightened, like stout Cortez coming upon the Pacific — war is profits, politicians are puppets, Parliament is a farce, justice is a fraud, property is theft… It’s all here: the Stock Exchange, the arms dealers, the press barons… You can’t fool Brodie — patriotism is propaganda, religion is a con trick, royalty is an anachronism… Pages and pages of it. It’s like being run over very slowly by a travelling freak show of favourite simpletons, the India rubber pedagogue, the midget intellectual, the human panacea…

Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing

Weeping Rock, Zion Canyon, Utah

Takes pics that look like this:

It’s ok, I have blood

Metronymy, The Look

Helen plays Schubert. New lens seems rather nice.

Helen’s in the front room playing Du bist die Ruh by Schubert, with a friend whistling the voice part. Even so, it’s very, very beautiful. Here’s Sylvia Schwartz singing it. Schubert was just 26 when he wrote this.