Right. A delight to listen to. I hope I will have the chance to listen to them in concert some time soon! Why is salsa music entitled to break my inner self in such an incredible way? I am never the same after listening to it.

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PLUTON
Que cherche en mon palais ce mortel téméraire ?
Ose-t-il en troubler le silence éternel ?
Prévoit-il ce qui suit son dessein criminel ?
Connaît-il le danger qu'on court à me déplaire ?

ORPHÉE
Je ne viens point ici, Monarque des Enfers,
Pour faire aucune violence
Aux lieux soumis à ta puissance,
Ni poussé du désir d'apprendre à l'Univers
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After the Holland intellectual high, I am now back to reality, "crystallizing" various things here in Helsinki.

1. A bit puzzled by why, and how, sometimes our worst examples become the best in retrospect. I am teaching for a few weeks here a course on a subject I truly hated when I was taught it. I blamed (and continue to blame) my former teacher of ( Read more... )

Still elated by the three-way conference. There were some incredible lectures. It is not every day that one gets to gather very good mathematicians, philosophers and artists - and try to talk for the others, and listen to them, for three days.

Now, back to Helsinki!

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La música de Boris Grebenshikov me acompañó (en la mente) durante todo el viaje a San Petersburgo, hace ya siete meses. Tal vez por las sonoridades repetidas de las difíciles vocales y consonantes rusas que oíamos por doquier y me recordaban las canciones de Grebenshikov, tal vez por los trozos en ruso de Après moi le déluge de Regina Spektor - tal ( Read more... )

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Alejandro has been giving serious feedback (see this post and the few posts that follow) to my question on Orpheus. Aside from the Orpheus song itself, he has been concentrating on visual (and film, and literary) renderings of the myth. Here are some pictures of a ballet version, by Scapino from Rotterdam. Their website does not quite describe who ( Read more... )

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