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The Diary
English source:
Virginia Woolf
What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something . . . so
elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful
that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep
old desk . . . in which one flings a mass of odds and ends
without looking them through. I should like to come back, after
a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself
and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously
do, into a mould, transparent enough to reflect the light of our life.
elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful
that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep
old desk . . . in which one flings a mass of odds and ends
without looking them through. I should like to come back, after
a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself
and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously
do, into a mould, transparent enough to reflect the light of our life.
Composer
Dominick Argento
Dominick Argento (1927 – 2019) was an American composer known for his lyric operatic and choral music. Among his best known pieces are the operas Postcard from Morocco, Miss Havisham's Fire, The Masque of Angels, and The Aspern Papers. Image © King…
