Glenn Gould and Nobuyuki Yuasa on way North

Glenn Gould, 1967, and  Nobuyuki Yuasa, 1966, as I read Bashō haiku to the sound of Bach piano :

serendipity or ?

Nobuyuki Yuasa 1966 text and the Glenn Gould 1967 broadcast

The Japaneses translator : "In the imagination of the people at least, the North was "

#insight #inspiration #serendipity #haiku #Bach #solitude #TheNorth 

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Zwicky, Wittgenstein, music

IN 1992, would it not truly have been "fresh air" if, instead of the praise of Ronald de Sousa, the U of T Press had broken with good form and marketing and placed a dissenting view of the book on the back cover of the paperbound edition of Kan Zwicky's Lyric Philosophy? On a tasteless dust jacket for an oh, so expensive hardcover destined for the shelves of libraries and so, discarded?  And then from the stacks to storage?

Consider that not a single page is colour - in a book of so many reproductions.  Not even the addition of colour to the bass clef.  Or the alto clef of the Mozart.

The music extends only across Wittgenstein's taste.  The melody of Ben Jonson's 1616 "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" cannot find a place in the narrow band from Bach to Bruckner's 7.

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner. Where is that Haydn piano sonata? The Weber clarinet?

Among post-Wittgensteinians, a question of good form?  „Listen - can you hear it?“

Hopefully another edition would include links to fine interpretations of each selection included.

But is it assumed the reader can read music?  Yet we could not have the Kant with the original German?  This was Toronto Studies in Philosophy.  They had published Fackenheim.  Who are these readers of Wittgenstein who cannot read him in German?

It is as sad as those books of Haiku in translation with largely blank pages and not so much as a romanji version of the original.  No special typesetting required (beyond a few diacritics.)

What explains the absence of Suzanne Langer?  A failing of her editor?  A misplaced set of note cards?  A mis-labeled box of index cards?  A single set of large file cards used on a plane while travelling back from an APA conference - and then misplaced?

Should this post be re-worked with an eye to form, to ensure balance, to allow thought to etch the mean plate of experience?

Wittgenstein — said to have interrupted a performance of a Schubert quartet ... a question of style.  A shoebox of notes, perhaps not quite in order.

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note: the 2003 Gaspereau Press volume has the author's name in a subtle red on the title page.
v. Rorschach colour shock; red-inked seals, kanji, on Japanese prints, 朱印

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Cuttlefish: the male cross-dresser and moral decadence

The male cuttlefish who reach the female disguised as a female suggest a view of knowledge and evolution which Paul Valéry might have enjoyed.

The female gives preference to his sperm pack (she has her choice of a few she has accepted.)

First, view his female camouflage as a mental representation of his which she perceives.

Second, consider that this camouflage first arose as an aspect of signalling among cuttlefish.

Third, consider that the hominid scientist views his display as a mechanism and her opting for his sperm pack as a response in which, once again, no perception and communication occurred at all.

Fourth: transpose to any long-standing debates about sense-data and physical objects or the existence of other minds and entertain the notion of theists that this skeptical trend has contributed to a moral relativism which reduces our prospects as a species.

The Dolphin and the Cuttlefish

The bottle-nose dolphin has dived and is searching about the ocean floor where it last dined on a cuttlefish.

Under its very snout is a swaying set of orange fronds, lightly speckled (a cuttlefish in camouflage.)

Thesis: the skin layers of the camouflaging cuttlefish constitute a mental representation.  Rationale:  cuttlefish moves over an area, perceives its dominant patterns and shapes and constructs its best representation of those patterns and shapes not in a higher neural level but in its outer skin ayers.  No homunculus is required: any dolphin or other predator will do.