#Enigma Variations

[aseaofquotes]

André Aciman, Enigma Variations

[lovelikeafuneral]

oh i will be there

[married-to-a-redhead]

Can’t go wrong with Edward Elgar and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting.

[cliffsnotes]

cool thing to know abt me is i am a professional musician by trade and a writer by choice

i love love loveee Elgar’s Enigma Variations bc each variation is dedicated to/inspired by/intended to parody different people in Elgar’s life and i think thats so cool

and then at the end? in the variation he wrote for himself?? THERE ARE LITTLE BITS OF EACH OF THE OTHER VARIATIONS.

it feels like ��i am a collection of all the things i have ever loved” and that is so beautiful and makes me so in love with music

there is also a variation about a friend’s dog who fell down a hill. he barks. it is so silly (var. XI)

[zengsdiary]

Sometimes, just wanting to tell them something that would have mattered to them, or ask about people and places only they would have known about, reminds us that they'll never hear us, won't answer, don't care. But perhaps it's much worse for them: maybe they are the ones calling out to us and it is we who can't listen and don't seem to care.

[jeffreybower]

Your Week in Books #20

Vibal and Blush Books acquisitions, Erin Entrada Kelly, the Ateneo Press Review Crew, Arundhati Roy and more in this week’s edition. Continue reading Your Week in Books #20

[vera-dauriac]

The thrill of victory: The book you love is getting a fancy Netflix adaptation.

The agony of defeat: Starring an actor who squicks you out.

[hitogatarock]

I Want to Know Classical Music in Detail! (game ver.)

illustration series by Yamamichi Yuka

the insight illustration series returns with the newer Musicarts and the pieces they came from! this serves as part 7 of this post, and this is the last one of this series. I hope you enjoy!

I also had a compiled twitter thread of this too so go HERE for the thread!

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[dirtyriver]

X-Men Forever #1 by Kieron Gillen & Luca Maresca

[ourdramaqueen]

Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations and Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.

[culturevulturette]

One of the most glorious melodies ever written...

[lovelikeafuneral]

edit: ok post cancelled because what the hell is wrong with andre aciman…

[dirtsweet]

But had I not eventually learned about the ways of physical love through gossip, hearsay, and foul words, God only knows what I would have invented once seized by the urge to touch another human being.

-André Aciman, Enigma Variations

[gingergofastboatsmojito]

I'M SAT

[hitogatarock]

Musicart profiles (07)

Takt op's official twitter account has periodically releasing the profiles or biodata for the new playable Musicarts. This serves as part 7, and this is the last profiles to be released as the game is on their way to end of service in April 2024.

First person basis is a term on how to address yourself in first person, widely known in Japanese language has so many words to address yourself in first person. I have an explanation on each first person basis used here on a twitter thread !

the Musicarts' ages are still a grey area since they're human-like being but not a human at the same time. I speculated that it was the age when they were first awakened as a Musicart, or the age when their human host loses their conciousness and memory before awakened as a Musicart— similar to Anna's awakening as Destiny. (this is a subject to change)

I also had a compiled twitter thread of this too so go HERE for the thread!

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