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the anther man

Someone once asked the composer Arnold Schoenberg if he wasn’t the person who wrote all that awful modern music. He replied, “No one else wanted the job, so I had to take it on.” That’s pretty much how I felt … Continue reading

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a sad farewell

My wife was long used to being in the presence of a razor-sharp mind like mine. She would say something like “You can’t wear those pants in public”, and I would say “Why are they called ‘pants’ when it’s clearly … Continue reading

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