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Lisa
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LitWit • Baroque music & early keyboards • Hockey • Enterprise tech marketing "Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time." ~Howard Nemerov #ClassicalMusic #Baroque #SciComm
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 5h
There’s his kid, Joseph, too! 11 Capricci…
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 5h
‘Nite, peeps. I’m doing some historically informed grieving over here due to the evisceration of #STLBlues: 5-0, home ice. Hockey season opening heartbreaker. 😭

Handel aria, “Ah! spietato!”
“Ah! Cruel One! And you are not moved. By such faithful affection…”
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Ah! spietato! e non ti muove (Handel) Sandrine Piau
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 6h
They did, it was weird. At least the city did right and went nuts!
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 7h
I tell myself that ALL the time!! 😁
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 7h
The Blues would make lousy cardiologists, based on the number of broken hearts they leave in their wake 😢. And yet I keep watching…
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 8h
🤣🤣👍 Excellent point!! 🍻
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 8h
Absolutely!! Early music evangelist, lifelong hockey loyalist, unreasonably fervent fan of both!

That said, there’s only *one* of those where I will jump up and swear loudly during live performances 😆🏒🥅
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 9h
I had the same reaction!! I thought he’d been dead for decades.
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 14h
Right?! There will be a spelling test.
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 14h
I haven’t read any recent work, but it otherwise reminded me a bit of late Faulkner turned outwards—with that syntax kinda like vintage Pyrex bowls: unbroken, somewhat opaque, and will probably outlast us all!
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 14h
🤔 Good point—he does seem allergic to punctuation and paragraph breaks! My sense is it’s more immersion than affectation (endless sentences mirroring futility and all that). It becomes so dense as to end up breathing the unraveling rather than merely observing it…
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 16h
Got the order for the Wind Up Bird Wings called in, working on the Kafka on the Shrimp Rolls. Was hoping you could bring the Dance Dance Dan Dan noodles. For shots, are we doing Wild Sheep Chasers?
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 16h
Love this!
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 16h
Krasznahorkai was the subject of a lengthy Art of Fiction interview in the Paris Review some time ago.
There’s no option for me to gift link, but your library may have. #NobelinLiterature

www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7...
László Krasznahorkai, The Art of Fiction No. 240
László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in Gyula, a provincial town in Hungary, in the Soviet era. He published his first novel, Satantango, in 1985, then The Melancholy of Resistance (1989), War and Wa...
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 22h
OH WOW! Congratulations to our contributor, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!!! 😍🥳
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László Krasznahorkai - Words Without Borders
László Krasznahorkai is the recipient of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction.
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 17h
I may have a new hobby 😆.
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 18h
…Finally, he’s been in the Paris Review a lot (I have a Paris Review problem in the same way I have a coffee problem, BTW).
Worth digging up all those. He was also interviewed for its Art of Fiction a while back:
www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7...
László Krasznahorkai, The Art of Fiction No. 240
László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in Gyula, a provincial town in Hungary, in the Soviet era. He published his first novel, Satantango, in 1985, then The Melancholy of Resistance (1989), War and Wa...
www.theparisreview.org
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 18h
…to take a personal and vocal public stance, like on Ukraine. Those two things alone I was fairly certain would appeal to the Committee based on current conditions. Nobel always gets readers reading Nobelists. It was the right time, the necessary time…
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 18h
Current state of the world. I read his work when he first started popping up on contender lists years ago. To the point in your other post, actually—he is not afraid of challenging readers to struggle with despair and decay, but has faith in them able to do so.
I also admire his willingness…
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 18h
Love this: “The PDF isn't a bonus—it's infrastructure. It's how independent musicians create meaning…”
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 19h
😁 Well, but now there’s work involved: re-reading some of what I’ve already read, plus the inevitable spate of “That sounds bleak but it interesting…” book binges.

Now? Nah, I’m breaking out the snacks for the “It wasn’t Murakami” after-party!
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 19h
🤣 Dunno, some pieces are better served by a ref versus conductor! Now I’m having bad visions of “Disney’s Lully on Ice!”
(And that’s also one way to instantly improve a viola section!)
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 19h
He was one of my two bets on winners this year (Can Xue was the other). Jeez, that’s adding another layer of suffering in hospital, tho!
Zeitgeist for the win this year.

We can also continue the long-standing annual celebration of “At least it wasn’t Murakami…” 😆
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 19h
🤦🏻‍♀️
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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 19h
Exactly. And sadly, hypocrisy is not a faith problem—it’s a human feature. Easy to to smugly point out, harder to understand the gap between ideals and being human. Every moral system wrestles with that, and witnessing it is best done with humility, not popcorn.
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