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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 2h

‘Nite, peeps. This is as good a place as any to find your soft landing after *quite* a week—William Lawes, Harp Consort No. 5 in D major.

It’s your four-minute breather away from everything, and a dose of calm distilled from order, light, and grace.
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#ClassicalMusic

Sarabande et Allemande | Robin Pharo, Ensemble Près de votre oreille

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 3h

“Night of the homeless, the sleepless, night of those winding the watches of their souls…”
Reading a fascinating & peculiar book by Charles Simic: Dime Store Alchemy, The Art of Joseph Cornell.
Best read slowly, occasionally aloud.

#amreading #poetry
Janácek “In The Mists”
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Book cover “Dime Store Alchemy, The Art of Joseph Cornell” by Charles Simic. Cover photo is an assemblage by Joseph Cornell:

The composition is in a wooden box. At the center of the box is an image of a young girl, often interpreted as a ballet dancer. This figure is a reproduction from Pablo Picasso's 1905 painting, Family of Saltimbanques, referencing Cornell's interest in the performing arts.
The girl is placed amidst a collection of colorful rings, balls, and wooden spheres. These elements give the impression of celestial orbits, linking the young dancer to a planetary system.
In the upper right is the word, “Appolinaris.”

From _Dime Store Alchemy_:
“Old Postcard of 42nd Street at Night
I’m looking for the mechanical chess player with a red turban.
I hear Pythagoras is there queuing up, and Monsieur Pascal, who hears the silence inside God's ear.
Eternity and time are the coins it requires, everybody's portion of it, for a quick glimpse of that everything which is nothing.
Night of the homeless, the sleepless, night of those winding the watches of their souls, the stopped watches, before the machine with mirrors.
Here's a raised hand covered with dime-store jewels, a hand like "a five-headed Cerberus," and two eyes opened wide in astonishment.

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 4h

Something quiet and contemplative for those like me feeling unwell tonight.

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Les jardins de ziryab

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 4h

This is mesmerizing — and I hope it soothes…

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 10h

Since his nephew was a prime suspect, could that mean Leclair was slain by a…relative minor?

:: ducking flying tomatoes ::

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 11h

Right?! That’s a gut-punch. 😢

Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 11h

No?!?! Seriously RIP?! And yes on Annie Hall.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 11h

I’m so glad!! 😁 That tension he creates with his sense of line contour, those crazy-impossible virtuosic passages, treading the line between order and yearning in everything he wrote—it’s like Baroque crack!
Shimmers *and* simmers, if that’s possible…

Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 11h

This is fabulous!!

Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 11h

I’m so glad you liked it — Leclair wrote such achingly beautiful works.

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TonnHELL 👿 @tonnielles.bsky.social · 14h

Some days there’s just not enough coffee

Glass coffee carafe with a plastic straw inserted into the drip hole in the lid. Text says: “That moment when I realized my coffee pot has a straw holder”

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 13h

Be still my heart… 😍

Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 17h

🤦🏻‍♀️😂 …or three!

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan J Frog! youtu.be/evgEJlOPoeo?...

Michigan J. Frog - "Hello My Baby"

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Zero Sum Game 🍁 @classicvibe.bsky.social · 1d

Another clear nite, Moon watching allniter
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@lisasass.bsky.social

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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Pat Metheny & Nils Landgren

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

This is a total mood, like shaping air into velvet.

Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

Also, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress that you shared was so lush — thanks!!

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

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Michigan J. Frog - "Hello My Baby"

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

OMG, that looks so delish!! And gorgeous day!

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

All is well in Pajamastan tonight—staying in and settled in with
🫖 tea,
📚 a pile of books thishigh,
✉️ letter writing,
🎻and this exquisite Leclair sonata, which is a fine distraction from doomscrolling (highly recommend!).
#ClassicalMusic #TGIF

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J.-M. Leclair: Sonate en mi mineur, I. Gavotte | Théotime Langlois de Swarte, William Christie

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 1d

This week in counterpoint class, I described partimenti as the “instant ramen” of Western music: everything you need for a delicious meal is right there in the package 🍜

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🧪

Thalia, PhD @thalia.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I forget to type "coli" when googling genes.

This time instead of finding search results for the transcription factor yidZ, I got a kosher B&B in Illinois and a "Judean Drip" instagram.

Shalomie my prokaryotie homies
✡️ 🧫 🧬

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Gokul Salvadi @beingokul.com · 1d

blog.beingokul.com/p/577-human?... #writingcommunity

57.7% Human

How Writers Learn to Perform Incompetence

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

OK, you cracked me up with that spot-on description! 😆

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

That sounds like a fascinating bio of a tragic short life…