Gravitas

Dwindling, but not extinguished, we have decided to fare forward with the following ideas.

See the schedule on the side.

We want to work our way through Understanding Fiction, a most excellent work.  The plan is to read as much as we can stand, along with the discussions and questions.  The Whites own a copy and so do the Zartmans.   It is an expensive book, but if you don’t want to get it, you can just listen.  We plan to do the reading of the stories and the observations as part of the bash itself.   I think it will be most satisfactory.

We also want to finish the last two chapters of Visions of Order and discuss them once we have wearied ourselves on Understanding Fiction. After we finish VoO, we will continue with something along those lines: non-fiction, prosaic.

It seems to me it would be jolly if we could, sometime in June, read Copland’s What to Listen for in Music and have some musical person such as Andrea help us through it.  Perhaps the 16th would not be inconvenient?  I merely offer the suggestion.

Please be so good as to read the following two things for the next bash.

Little Daylight

Fantastic Imagination

Here is the essay from Saturday, “On Princes”.