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"I wish they had humanized Sauron as a hot leather daddy, which would make the series more morally complex, and explain his obsession with hobbits."

--gives the "eye of Sauron" a hole new meaning...

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oh my

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“if you read Thoreau a certain way you find a lot of proto-Proust.”

Yes

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Really great -- thank you! I am more or less an Ives neophyte who has been meaning for a long time to take the plunge, and I think you've delivered the final push... Finding a way in to his work, his mind, can be tough, but there are some very helpful orientational threads here. And then that larger matter of the nature of beauty in music (or in general) is so fertile...

'Key of splat' (!)

One link issue: the last one (Listen to the end of Thoreau) is the same link as the previous one (Listen to Thoreau's flute).

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thanks for the heads up!!! and for reading. Glad if I can help with Ives in my small way

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Astoundingly good essay—thank you. One I will return to. Re: use of Foster—I’ve often mused that given all the source material he uses in the St. Gaudens that the use of Foster is a very intentional commentary on (or at least a nod to) the issue-ridden nostalgia of a white sculptor looking back at/depicting a “Black experience”—seems like that might also be apropos here. I need to revisit both Von Glahn and Burkholder (received All Made of Tunes for Christmas this year!)

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