Reflections of a working writer and reader
Our ancestors wrote prose in long, beautiful sentences, convoluted like curls; although we still learn to do it that way in school, we write in short sentences that cut more quickly to the heart of the matter; and no one in the world can free his thinking from the manner in which his time wears the cloak of language. Thus no man can know to what extent he actually means what he writes and in writing, it is far less that people twist words than it is that words twist people. Robert Musil
December 1957:
Billie Holiday – Fine And Mellow
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Lady Day with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan, Vic Dickenson, Roy Eldridge.
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Thanks, John! Lovely!
jb says: Yeah; it set me up and carried me through the week.
Cool! The music is solemn and nice to hear. I like it.