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GONER I love this word: GONER. It is a self-contained cartoon: A person looking down a long street, mouth open in astonishment, hand over eyebrows to shield against the sunlight as a fast-moving vehicle races off into the horizon. GONER contains long lines leading to and from the horizon. GONER contains drafty breezes of exodus [...]

Summer must be here because the aural rape of the Mr. Softee truck is back. Noise pollution is too gentle a description. The Mr. Softee noise is sometimes so loud that it hurts my stomach. It’s some of the most violent noise I experience, and while many people find it annoying I think my reaction [...]

37 years old and i am just starting to understand Mozart. starting to see a balance between substance and flourish, melody and filigree, material and theater. i get depressed listening to Richter, in his 80s, say that he never cracked the code of Mozart. i never will, either, but these past couple of weeks it [...]