15 April 2004
4 June 2025
tuning in
Wanda Landowski plays JS Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue on the harpsichord it’s a rock concert in a jam jar
John Ellard says on Radio National that a small level of depression may be attractive to the observer and that it has been demonstrated in the lower animals that serotonin levels and transmission affect status hierarchy, eating, levels of compulsion and anger
you are going to turn black today you will always be black
or blue
Mrs Charles Meredith commented in 1850
At the period of which I am writing, Hobarton was certainly not in advance of Sydney in point of society or intelligence, and the constant efforts of Sir John and Lady Franklin to arouse and foster a taste for science, literature, or art, were more productive of annoyance to themselves, than of benefit to the unambitious multitude. The coarse and unmanly attacks made in some of the public papers on Lady Franklin, whose kindness and ability, even if not appreciated at their full value, ought at least to have met with gratitude and respect, were most disgraceful.
radio cha cha the truth is more like
the spider’s koan
in the web of time