At Contrapuntalism, a great statement from Nadia Boulanger: “Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.”
As more and more attractions and distractions compete for our eyes and ears, I think that the ability to pay attention, to attend, will become ever more prized in the twenty-first century.
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Friday, August 24, 2012
“Life is denied by lack of attention”
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Seeing the name of that blog immediately reminded me of Tom Lehrer, and his lines in "So Long, Mom":
"While we're attacking frontally, watch Brinkley and Huntley / Describing contrapuntally the cities we have lost."
He cleverly pronounced the newsmen's names as "Brink-a-ley" and "Hunt-a-ley."
Oh gosh — I borrowed that record from the library again and again in my youth. (Now I own a copy.)
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