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Cape of Good Wine's avatar

Mmmm. I have so missed your posts. "to follow the bassist from start to finish is to run your hands along the bark of a single oak’s tree trunk". I find that, with you, I highlight and copy so many phrases, wanting to reference them in my comment...and then realise you know your own words. Your writing is wonderful!!

I remember hearing and recording selected tracks from Pearl Jam's No Code on the radio (pre album release). I listened to it for a while before buying the CD...I've never been able to make peace with the album's official song order (and had to manually reorder my iPod to return to the first version). It was probably the first time I did that...after years of classical music studies I'd accepted a certain order to movements in a symphony...a flow of energy and its resolution. I sort of wonder if a part of me thought I knew better than the PJ producer, or was trained to expect symphony structure... or maybe it was just stubbornness 🤣.

It's so clear when the order of a wine flight isn't right. You're so right that there's a sequential order/logic to things!

Beautiful thoughtful writing, as always! Thanks for sharing your writing and thoughts.

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Claire's avatar

Aw, you haven't lost it! Silky smooth ( as Colin Jackson would purport) writing, wit and wisdom and a far reaching knowledge. Miloš misses you! Sequencing in a poetry anthology also important.....Songs of innocence and Experience, William Blake?

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