Tag: Kermode Game
Sir Frank Kermode died yesterday (British time) at 90. “Time cannot exist without a soul (to count it).” — Aristotle — Passage quoted on the title page of…
From yesterday — Call and Response “One would call out, in the standardized abbreviations of their science, motifs or initial bars of classical compositions, whereupon the other had…
The following, from Wikipedia, is an image of Utopia 14, the 1954 paperback reissue of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1952 novel Player Piano. Commentary from Wikipedia— “A player piano is…
“We shall now give a brief summary of the beginnings of the Glass Bead Game. It appears to have arisen simultaneously in Germany and in England. In both…