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Faust and Sub-Prime Mortgages
18 December 2007, 10:52 pmTags: , , , , , , , ,

Recently I read both Goethe’s and Marlowe’s Faust plays–the Faust leg­end has been a major influ­ence on many gen­er­a­tions of com­posers and authors. I found them exceed­ingly dull, except that the Mar­lowe made me think about chang­ing Eng­lish syn­tax in rela­tion to the other ger­manic lan­guages. And in the case of Goethe, I was curi­ous about the psy­chol­ogy that would lead some­one to tor­ment over this story for one’s entire career.

What they made me real­ize though, is that ideas of the value and endurance of art are tied to our world views. (more…)

Music Has No Value
15 March 2007, 12:48 amTags: , , , , , ,

This is an issue I’ve been think­ing about for a long time. Can we actu­ally jus­tify say­ing one kind of music is bet­ter than any other, or that one piece is bet­ter than another? (more…)

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