@manfromroto

Con prosciutto, agnello e marmellata di fragole

 hic in antipodibus
Joined April 2015
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#OnSuccess “Make a habit of reading something inspiring and cheerful just before going to sleep.”
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“Lingua Latina non est lingua mortua.”
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Au parc Centennial. “While I live, I’ll grow.” - the famous company motto and trademark of the historic Australian retail firm Anthony Hordern & Sons.
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Alan Chapman@stravinskyiteOct 25
I’m beside myself. (At today’s Grand Ave Arts: All Access.)
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Au parc Centennial.
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Au parc Centennial. ‘Cottonwool’ tree.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis@Kon__KOct 23
For Helen ❤️❤️❤️
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Lighting a candle on my front verandah as many others will do tonight to show we are thinking of Helen Haines.
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23 October: Remembering Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher & historian of ideas, born on this day in 1927. “We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are".
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“Two roads diverged in a wood, But I could only see one track because of my one-track mind and the fact that I had dropped my compass down a rabbit-hole while retying my shoelace on the pathway to obsolescence.” ~ Robert Frost-Bight.
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Au parc Centennial.
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Mordecai@MenschOhneMusilOct 17
Fernand #Léger, Les quatre acrobates, 1954.
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Listening to Vaughan Williams’ “JOB” recently reminded me that it was the first work of RVW’s that I bought on LP back in 1965 in a performance conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. The next work of his I bought was the 9th Symphony, again conducted by Boult. …..
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….. It was not the easiest way to approach the music of the great man especially as I was then living on my own in a converted railway carriage at a one-teacher school in a remote village in the middle of NSW. Such music, listened to at night…..
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…..on a battery-powered record player (as the nearest electricity supply was 54km away) nevertheless proved to be the beginning of my understanding & appreciation of the power & emotional impact of such music. The rest, as they say, is history.
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#WeekendWithNielsen
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From “INEXTINGUISHABLE: The fiery rhythms of Carl Nielsen”by Alex Ross (‘The New Yorker’: February 25, 2008)
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If your belief-system is so weak & unsound that you have to ban books, slogans, placards or even t-shirts because the opinions they express don’t align with what you’ve been taught to believe, then perhaps your belief-system doesn’t deserve to survive.
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October 16 marks the 138th anniversary of the birth of American playwright Eugene O’Neill in New York City. O'Neill is the only playwright to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. #TheIcemanCometh #LongDaysJourneyIntoNight
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16 October, 1926: “Háry János”, a Hungarian folk opera by Zoltán Kodály, is premiered at the Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest.
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If you had told my parents that one day you would be sending a text message to members of your family in their rooms to let them know that dinner was ready (rather than walking all the way through the house & along a hallway) they’d have thought you were mad.
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