Dribs and Drabs
Sep. 27th, 2007 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lwoodFrom Helsingin Sanomat, reviews of a couple new biographies of Sibelius, including the reviewer's musings on pantheism:
It had mysticism and Sibelius in the same paragraph, so it amused me.
Today, while walking from the train to the office, I passed through the Conference Center, where smallish expos/trade shows/conferences are regularly held, often with small goodies, also called "gimmes".
I've become a gimme snob, I admit it. Spare me your ballpoint pens, for when I may whistle up boxes of (navy, not royal) gel pens at my slightest whim ballpoints fail to appeal. So, too, do I abjure your pencils, for mine are mechanical and need no sharpening.
However, I am well amused by the metahumor of a gimme tote bag. Here, at last, is the gimme that holds all others, and besides one can always use more shopping bags: ones one needn't pay for are best.
Last week, it was a conference of German scholars and others interested with networking with German scholars. This appeals, and they had a tote bag.
This morning, it was an organization dedicated to using more ecologically responsible building materials, especially in schools. This, too, appeals, and not only did they have a tote bag, but another booth yielded a 6" ruler, and yet a third offered Dracaena sanderiana, known better as "lucky bamboo". Good haul!
Last, this week's Onion (you know they're satirists, right?) brings the following heartwarming article:
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lysana and erynn999 have returned from the beach, wherein much went well. If you know what that means...you know what it means.
Hope to see many of you Sunday!
-- Lorrie
According to Mäkelä, Sibelius had an "elemental" relationship with nature - not a romantic, or pantheistic one. If Sibelius, in his sensitive moments, experienced the presence of the impersonal primitive strength of divinity, then that should be pantheism by definition. And pantheism is not a religious cult of any kind, but rather a wordless, mystical experience.
Finland’s even nature is not the kind that Mäkelä feels is likely to give birth to pantheistic experiences: gorges, mountains, and rumbling mountain waterfalls are needed for that.
But is it not possible for a Finn to experience the forest in a pantheistic manner? In Sibelius’s last great work Tapiola, mystical primitive strength run wild in a Dionysian manner, and "divine" instinctive energy flows.
It had mysticism and Sibelius in the same paragraph, so it amused me.
Today, while walking from the train to the office, I passed through the Conference Center, where smallish expos/trade shows/conferences are regularly held, often with small goodies, also called "gimmes".
I've become a gimme snob, I admit it. Spare me your ballpoint pens, for when I may whistle up boxes of (navy, not royal) gel pens at my slightest whim ballpoints fail to appeal. So, too, do I abjure your pencils, for mine are mechanical and need no sharpening.
However, I am well amused by the metahumor of a gimme tote bag. Here, at last, is the gimme that holds all others, and besides one can always use more shopping bags: ones one needn't pay for are best.
Last week, it was a conference of German scholars and others interested with networking with German scholars. This appeals, and they had a tote bag.
This morning, it was an organization dedicated to using more ecologically responsible building materials, especially in schools. This, too, appeals, and not only did they have a tote bag, but another booth yielded a 6" ruler, and yet a third offered Dracaena sanderiana, known better as "lucky bamboo". Good haul!
Last, this week's Onion (you know they're satirists, right?) brings the following heartwarming article:
Last,
lysana and erynn999 have returned from the beach, wherein much went well. If you know what that means...you know what it means.Hope to see many of you Sunday!
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2007-09-27 05:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-27 05:15 pm (UTC)Sunday at my house: ice cream cake, tri-tip, vegetarian entree TBD and potluck.
Wednesday: All-you-can-eat sushi at Akasaka. This is on my actual birfday, and hey, AYCE not-bad sushi for $20 is, well, pretty good.
I 'splained everything yesterday (http://lwood.livejournal.com/173527.html)--sorry for any confusion!
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2007-09-27 05:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-27 06:21 pm (UTC)...Mike did, bless him. I was spazzing about delivery of ice cream cake to the sushi restaurant, and he spilled at that point.
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2007-09-27 06:31 pm (UTC)Thought you and DLP might enjoy this one for your trance class. :)
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Date: 2007-09-27 06:39 pm (UTC)But unless I catch the act with my own eyes, or have a report from some trusted source, it's just as likely to be New Age twaddle, or a faker, or whatever. One can't be too careful--even if it amuses.
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2007-09-27 06:51 pm (UTC)Irreverent? Moi? Never...
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Date: 2007-09-27 07:00 pm (UTC)-- Lorrie
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Date: 2007-09-27 09:00 pm (UTC)BTW- ever listen to Jon Leif's "not quite a ballet" Ballet of Baldr? Apparently he wrote a Poetic Edda trilogy of ballets that weren't ballets. Not bad- midway between Strauss and Stravinsky, without the annoyingness of Stravinsky and not quite the punch of Strauss.
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Date: 2007-09-27 10:11 pm (UTC)And now, alcohol.
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Date: 2007-09-27 10:23 pm (UTC)-- Lorrie