Sunday Papers: Anatole France

 

"Chance is the pseudonym God uses when he does not want to sign his name."

On the turntable:  George Thorogood, "The Best of George Thorogood and the Destroyers"

Sunday Papers: Colette

"The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time."

On the turntable:  David Tanenbaum, "Acoustic Counterpoint" 

Sunday Papers: Robert Louis Stevenson

"No one knows the stars who has not slept, as the French happily put it, à la belle étoile.  He may know all their names and distances and magnitudes, and yet be ignorant of what alone concerns mankind,—their serene and gladsome influence on the mind.  The greater part of poetry is about the stars; and very justly, for they are themselves the most classical of poets."

On the turntable:  Depeche Mode, "Black Celebration" 

Sunday Papers: Colette

"The future is what doesn't happen."

On the turntable:  Duran Duran, "Thank You"

Seen through Summer's Limpid Gaze

On the turntable:  David Grier, Freewheeling"

Castille Day

On the turntable:  David Sylvian, "Brilliant Trees"

Live with us in Forests of Azure

On the turntable:  David Byrne, "Music for the Knee Plays"