31.1.16

Echo Chamber Music

Moose! Moose! Moose! Moose! Moose!
Caboose! Caboose! Caboose! 'oose!
Dialed the reverb down

or do you prefer

Moose! Moose! Moose! Moose! Moose!
Caboose! Caboose! 'oose! Moose! Loose!
Turned the echo off



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15.1.16

Romantic Scoring

Richard Strauss
Would've scored Die Fledermaus
For an ultrasonic soprano
And her sunshine-shrinking beau.



Richard Strauss, Pauline and Franz Strauss, 1910
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4.1.16

Homo Grammariens

Steven Pinker.
Linguistically challenging thinker.
Bringing us down from the case trees,
The rich savannas of grammar to seize.


Credit: Penguin