“If I had to renounce my dilettantism, it is in h[ur]ling that I would specialize.” — Cioran, trans. Richard HowardTumblr (3.0; @unjustlyunread)https://unjustlyunread.tumblr.com/warming up to these Zaderatsky preludes in c# and c:(a faltering, teetering-on-a-melody...https://unjustlyunread.tumblr.com/post/814542848639778816https://unjustlyunread.tumblr.com/post/814542848639778816Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:56:34 -0500zaderatskymoody broodingclassical musicpreludeYoutubec-sharp minorc minorin potentia— Paul Valéry, from Analects, trans. Stuart Gilbert(one of his more red-blooded pensées,...https://unjustlyunread.tumblr.com/post/814013643551309825https://unjustlyunread.tumblr.com/post/814013643551309825Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:45:05 -0500paul valerylitquoteimpulseye olde pastimesimpotentiaHave we said enough now, and can we be released? […] No; we must sing another incantation, if...https://unjustlyunread.tumblr.com/post/811193785610567680https://unjustlyunread.tumblr.com/post/811193785610567680Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:44:38 -0500O Freunde nicht diese Töne!Let's sing another song boys!perhaps what we have already said would doif someone were to chant it repeatedlythe melody that sings itselftowards the Solitary Oneplotinushadot(“Whenever I was downcast I asked Pistorius to play that passacaglia by the old master...https://unjustlyunread.tumblr.com/post/786433702316081152https://unjustlyunread.tumblr.com/post/786433702316081152Sun, 15 Jun 2025 10:33:43 -0500dieterich buxtehude(demian)litmusic to read (to)august stradalmeilin aikeyboard musicanagogicallistening to itselfbuxtehude circumambulating in d minorthe saddest of all keysYoutubeArchie Shepp providing better forms (than words) for breath.(“In Inuit, ‘to 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