Linkage (concentrating this week on blogs I haven’t perused in a while):
:: Planking squirrels. What will they think of next?
:: Philadelphia is the worst place for genealogy I have ever seen.
:: Gee, I wonder why tech blogs are still, even in 2011, regarded as cesspools?
:: What we know of the Ninth’s Finale suggests that Bruckner was planning no simple, triumphal answers to such questions. Faith would have won out in the end, but not without an enormous struggle, bordering on madness. At the end of his life, Bruckner was seen reciting the Lord’s Prayer at the top of his voice, repeating each line for emphasis. He is also said to have suggested that if he did not live to finish the Ninth then God would have only Himself to blame. (I sometimes think I don’t listen to enough Bruckner…and then I listen to some Bruckner. Imagine a meal of French toast made with extremely thick slices of pumpernickel bread, with no syrup. That’s Bruckner.)
More next week!