Re: [NetBehaviour] ~~wards, qin improvisation

2020-10-18 Thread Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour
thanks Alan On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 2:47 AM Alan Sondheim wrote: > > Qin slows you up by its very nature, I think. Even though I don't (and > can't) play traditionally, it's hard to play fast on a 200-400 year old > instrument... It's a different experience - > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Simon Mclen

Re: [NetBehaviour] swansong

2020-10-18 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi Max, I didn't really think of it as a gladiatorial chamber - not sure what it was, fortification perhaps? In any case of course in London. I imagined people going up and down the stairs. Azure and I went both recent times to all the Roman sites we could find; I'm fascinated by the almost

Re: [NetBehaviour] swansong

2020-10-18 Thread Max Herman via NetBehaviour
I like these images Alan! A gladiatorial chamber like a cistern of bloodletting, and an angle of gravel with resting sinuosity: rivers and ancient might. They remind me of the trip I made to Europe last May and June, which to me is now most halcyon of the world before what we have now, a crown