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I’m not sorry it stopped. [on Lady Gaga’s ”Poker Face”]

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I've never listened to music lying down. Listening's reading if you close your eyes.Music's a wood you walk through.

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Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't.

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Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, obo...more

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You groan and shake your head, Sixsmith, I know, but you smile too, which is why I love you.

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Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father’s generation. Once, he showed me an aquatint of a certain Siamese temple. ...more

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I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

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One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner.

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Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.