What is a Classic?
A couple of days ago I blogged about John Franklin’s moment of clarity while listening to a late Beethoven sonata in 1845, less than twenty years after it was composed. The music had – according to Sten Narodny’s… Read More
A State of Wonder
In Sten Nadolny’s fine novel The Discovery of Slowness, the polar explorer John Franklin attends a recital of Beethoven sonatas on 9th May 1845. During the performance of the opus 111 sonata, “John felt he was actually meeting… Read More
Ricardo Blanco’s Blog
- To be always the same personI have driven past Bryn Arw countless times on my way to the Vale of Ewyas and Llantony, but only became aware of it as a separate entity about three years ago when a graffito appeared on the... Read More The post To be always the same person appeared first on Richard Gwyn.
- The last Welsh speakers of the Black MountainsOn my most recent excursion to the hills I have no new agenda following on from the ‘how long can you stay focused on anything at all’ theme, which, to be honest, turned out to be something of... Read More The post The last Welsh speakers of the Black Mountains appeared first on Richard Gwyn.
- Reflections on Borges, recursion, and the many worlds hypothesisMy apologies to subscribers who received a version of this post yesterday, without either the video or the text that follows. This was due to some technical issues (incompetence) on my part. The talk is delivered in Spanish;... Read More The post Reflections on Borges, recursion, and the many worlds hypothesis appeared first on Richard […]
- Narrative HorrorA conversation with an old friend, while driving to Bristol airport earlier this month, led me back along the wild mountain tracks of memory, and an introduction to what psychologist Martin Conway refers to as the self-memory system... Read More The post Narrative Horror appeared first on Richard Gwyn.
- What’s in a name?Regular readers of these posts — and if you do not already subscribe to the email, please do so in the space provided on the right — will have noticed that last week I dropped the moniker Ricardo... Read More The post What’s in a name? appeared first on Richard Gwyn.
Richard Gwyn is the author of Ricardo Blanco's Blog