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Quote of the moment Vol.2

“We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.” – Illustrated London News, Jan. 17, 1931 G. K. Chesterton

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"I am the last monarch of the old world. As Emperor, it is my duty to protect my peoples from their politicians" -Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary

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In Which we have a post of many topics: Truly a Divagation Store

Good morning, dear reader of this present post, my friend! Happy Monday! How are you, today? How have you been? I tried writing on the blog for over a week, and nothing would come out. It is frustrating to face such writing block, to the point of tears of frustration. I second guess every word or theme, and I have no joy in doing so...  I wonder what could be the cause of such problem. Is it the Blogger's phone interface? Nothing on the website suggests anything alarmingly bothersome, and yet, I must say I have more satisfaction with Substack, while I abhor Patreon's interface. Blogger is ideally on neither the field of Patreon, but also not on Substack level... How is the weather, by the way? The temperature has been increasing over the past days for me, it is natural, spring (whatever of such season we may have) turns to summer. The best part about such weather is the rememberance of Christmas, its arrival, the beautiful memories of before, and the reassuring thought this yea...

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In Which we have the tone for 2026 more defined: Dialogue of the Jane Jacobs

In Which one writes with his eyes half closed, such is life

In Which Christmas is Around the Corner! The small things, the woes and wins, and the book project that is so hard to do...

In Which we have the Musical Month of July 2025

In Which I aim to treat Each day as Christmas

In Which Books linger on for a while, and Culture is both saturated and empty

In Which I try to redeem Sunset Boulevard

In Which we Have a Sunny Thrlller and the defeat of the evil one

In Which I am again touched by the Opera Akhnaten

In Which I am Moved by The music composed by Gabriel Faure

In Which I stress that Pacing is Importsnt

In Which we Wrap up November 2023: A musical Retrospective

In Which we briefly talk about Late Rococo and the age of the Harp (1773-1789)

In Which I talk a bit about the uncanny (but catchy) musical Cats

In Which we have Rachmaninoff and Nicholas II