DON’T LET THIS PARAGRAPH FOOL YOU

Posted on Tuesday 20 March 2007

His post is about playing the piano, and restlessness, and Nina Simone, and the chorale. sheet music excerpt

And Ezra Pound, and accompaniment. And scraping.

Finally, I met someone who works at a Very Important Dictionary. I assumed that if you could really know What Words Mean, you would be analogously precise at all other areas of life—that you would never make a late payment on your credit card, or lose your keys, or miss a flight, etc.—however, what I really didn’t expect or predict was that this highly-placed dictionary person would have the sparkle of a certain insane joy for life, a certain devil-may-care, wicked-librarian-on-the-loose quality (no reference tome she!) … and I looked at dictionaries differently from then on, with a kind of “I know what you’re up to” glare, as if, despite their perspicacity, they might suddenly get up from their dusty pedestals and go clubbing until 4 in the morning and then drive hurtling nonstop to greet the dawn in Montauk.

Touchstone (Jeremy Denk)


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