#laconicism — Public Fediverse posts
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Anton Webern's Kinderstück (Children's Piece) from 1924. All 55 seconds of it.
Austere, teasing, gentle, true. It calls on us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9umvR9_3peQ
#AntonWebern #Kinderstück #laconicism #authenticity #MusicAgainstTheLies
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What a remarkable passage by Pepys. The officer to be executed."looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition." Respect and sarcastic disdain both asserting themselves in a statement of stoic detachment.
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It's sentences like this that raise Pepys's diary into high literature. The laconic counting of the child deaths that take place in his immediate circle, recorded as plain fact without embroidery, all emotion merely implied and being so much deeper for it. Worthy of Plutarch.
Looking at how we allowed our rulers to remove all #covid mitigations, with the next #pandemic we will have to learn counting like Pepys.
#Pepys #laconicism #diaries #literature #loss #dontletitcometothis