tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post2522313128626126240..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: The New Absence Is Always the SameUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-25635649123632208302017-02-18T12:58:35.430-05:002017-02-18T12:58:35.430-05:001)speaking of professors doing controversial thing...1)speaking of professors doing controversial things, a professor at a local institution of higher learning declined to teach this past thursday, as part of "a day without immigrants" - he himself is an immigrant from a south american country - he came to class and distributed a statement he had made and chatted a bit with the students - interestingly, although he teaches music theory, when looking at the sheet music for "while my guitar gently weeps" he didn't know that <b>C6</b> referred to a c major chord with an added a - he plays viola and conducts classical music - he doesn't concern himself with lead-sheet symbols, saying "when the students get into jazz ensemble they'll learn about that stuff" - and yet the text he has assigned has an appendix on lead-sheet symbols (appendix b - appendix a is about instrumental ranges and transpositions, and appendix c is a seven column table of numbers titled "set class list", which includes forte numbers, prime forms, and vectors)<br /><br /><br /><br />2)another immigrant i know, missus charley, went to work that day just the same<br /><br />3)speaking of hedgehogs, as larkin's poem does, our friends at wikipedia say<br /><br /><b>Although traditionally classified in the now abandoned order <i>Insectivora</i>, hedgehogs are omnivorous. They feed on insects, snails, frogs and toads, snakes, bird eggs, carrion, mushrooms, grass roots, berries, melons and watermelons. Berries constitute a major part of an Afghan hedgehog's diet in early spring after hibernation.</b><br /><br />3a)larkin's poem states that he feels the absence of the hedgehog <br /><br />lately i have been feeling the absence of my last cat<br /><br />all things must pass, all things must pass away<br /><br /><br /><br /><i></i>mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com