Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

January 12, 2010 5

Update and Barth on Music in “The Age of Absolutism”

By Robert Minto in Books, History, Music

Pardon the brief suspension of regular posting — a new semester has begun here at Dordt, involving me in new RA duties, some tedious but interesting astronomy homework, and a whole bunch of reading for courses on Historiography, Desire, and Social Geography. I’ve also commenced on my long-planned novel — my homework for a fiction [...]

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November 26, 2009 1

The Spine as the “Seat of Artistic Delight”

By Robert Minto in Appreciation, Art, Music

Another gem from Desiring the Kingdom. Smith quotes Vladimir Nabokov on reading Bleak House, for the purpose of demonstrating how embodied our imaginations are:
All we have to do when reading Bleak House is to relax and let our spines take over. Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the [...]

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September 5, 2009 0

Flavors of Inquiry

By Robert Minto in Appreciation, Books, Music, Philosophy, Theology

Is it disrespectful (or perhaps merely amateurish) to talk about why we enjoy certain kinds of inquiry? Or is it bad form these days to treat study, like meals, as a source of pleasure as well as a regimen or diet? I enjoy theology, philosophy, literature, and music. I also have certain overweaning impulses to [...]

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