...wanted something so badly that it kills you?
And I finished Some Prefer Nettles. Which makes me even more cynical. And what really strikes me is Kaname's character and how he can never commit himself to one person. (Even though this is not the main point the book is trying to convey) And Tanizaki is really good in blurring the line between ( Read more... )

I'm stuck on the Irving book, not stuck as in I-can't-put-the-book-down, but stuck as in I-don't-understand. This is partly because I don't have the scores for comparison and I can't draw any conclusions from this particular chapter, which is basically about Mozart's influences. Irving will say something about "oh Mozart is influenced by so and so ( Read more... )

So last Wednesday through the introduction of Nat I met Mr Kong, who very kindly lent us books on art and aesthetics. I chose Tanizaki Junichiro's In Praise of Shadows, translated by Harper and Seidensticker.

( Fangirl. )

Went to Esplanade to research on Dip programme notes yesterday. I borrowed this book by John Irving on Mozart's piano sonatas.

I'm quite intrigued by the book, even though I'm not sure how it will help in my writing as the ideas mentioned are mostly philosophical. If I do a philosophical analysis of every piece in my programme, 1100 words will ( Read more... )