Teaching resumes.

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Resume Morse Solids.

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A series of reading projects:

i. Finnegans Wake as a page per day. Starting in Part Two.

ii. Samuel Johnson (The Essays, Dictionary, etc.).

The epitome of 18th C linguistic propriety and restraint set against 20th C polysemy and verbal promiscuity.

Thinking about the sentence.

More to follow.

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A series of listening projects:

i. Keith Jarrett solo recordings. As today, driving gingerly through the snow and ice to Part I of the Paris Concert.

Thinking about the nature of improvisation. The relation of parts to the whole. Motif and development.

Others to follow.

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Daily pages.

Today, writing parallel to the Creative Writing students. If nothing more than a daily practice. A showing up to the page.