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Takeshi Sudo
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Musician, Writer
Literature, Art, Music
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“Shall I call that wise or foolish, now; if it be really wise it has a foolish look to it; yet, if it be really foolish, then has it a sort of wiseish look to it.”

(Moby-Dick, 99)
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
February 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
“Neither of them would ever really know what being together meant, downstairs at Fitzgerald’s or anywhere else.”

— William Trevor, Downstairs at Fitzgerald’s
#SundaySentence
February 1, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Reposted by Takeshi Sudo
《今のジャズのトレンドをチェックできるフェス》として知られるアメリカNYのWINTER JAZZFEST

その創始者ブライスと広報でキュレーターのマットからフェスの成り立ちや哲学を聞きました

ロバート・グラスパーやジョン・バティステをいち早く紹介し、UKジャズを世界に知らしめたフェスの意欲的な話です

interview WINTER JAZZFEST:ジャズの“今”を提示する最重要ジャズフェスの全貌(20,000字)|柳樂光隆 note.com/elis_ragina/...
interview WINTER JAZZFEST:ジャズの“今”を提示する最重要ジャズフェスの全貌(20,000字)|柳樂光隆
毎年1月にNYでWinter Jazz Festが開催される。このフェスには世界中のジャズ関係者が足を運ぶ。 Winter Jazzfest Winter Jazzfest is a beacon of the New York City jazz scene g www.winterjazzfest.com その理由はそのラインナップ。大御所やビッグネームが名を連ねる...
note.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:15 AM
“Pierre little foresaw that this world hath a secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death.”

(Pierre; or, The Ambiguities)

#MelvilleMonday 🐳
January 26, 2026 at 7:26 PM
beautiful!
January 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.”

—— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

#SundaySentence
#BOTD #HBD
January 25, 2026 at 9:30 AM
“Though firm, we are never too firm, though we love fun, we never have fun in a silly way that makes us appear ridiculous, unless that is out intent.”

—— George Saunders, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
January 24, 2026 at 1:29 PM
“Oh, grassy glades! oh, ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul”

Moby-Dick, 144

#MelvilleMonday 🐳
January 19, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Gefeliciteerd!
January 18, 2026 at 3:31 PM
“I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”

—— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
January 18, 2026 at 3:29 PM
“The true power of photography and motion pictures, the trick that allows us to live imaginatively in the frame, is not the perfection of technique but the selective obscuring of it.”

—— Richard Powers, Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

#SundaySentence
January 18, 2026 at 3:28 PM
“Write anything. Truth or untruth, it is unimportant. Speak but speak with tenderness, for that is all that you can do that may help a little.“

—— John Berger, G.
January 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
“Speak, but speak!—Aye, aye! thy silence, then, that voices thee.”

Moby-Dick, 36
#MelvilleMonday
January 12, 2026 at 9:13 PM
“Music is heightened nostalgia: music is that lost pleasure in a continuous process of being shattered.”

—— Brad Mehldau

www.allaboutjazz.com/brad-mehldau...

#SundaySentence
Brad Mehldau's Opening, Middle and Endgame article @ All About Jazz
Brad Mehldau's Opening, Middle and Endgame article by Mike Brannon, published on October 7, 2003 at All About Jazz. Find more Interview articles
www.allaboutjazz.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:48 PM
久々にメモ的なブログを投稿しました。『夢十夜』に登場する「星の破片(かけ)」の由来はシェイクスピアの『ロミオとジュリエット』? #夏目漱石
artssoy.blogspot.com/2026/01/blog...
漱石とシェイクスピア:夢十夜の「星の破片」
artssoy.blogspot.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:55 PM
“And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience”

Moby-Dick, 51

#MelvilleMonday
January 5, 2026 at 6:18 PM
"We need the banality which we find in the first instant of disclosure because it grounds us in reality."

—— John Berger, "Ways of Seeing"

#SundaySentence
January 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Reposted by Takeshi Sudo
ということで、23年間に毎日新聞で書いた200本足らずの書評をぜんぶ集めたものを出すべく準備中。来年になるか、再来年になるかはわからないが、タイトルだけは決まっていて、『我が魂を京都丸善に埋めよ』という。これ、Brian Aldissの本からのパクリです、はい。
December 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“Feeling guilty means admitting that the other person is right, not that they’re in a stronger position. ”

Anna Kowalska, “Horses” (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) from: “The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories”

#SundaySentence
December 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
—— Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

#SundaySentence
December 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“I had walked alone, searching, seeing only, though I sought for an ultimate harmony, the fleeting image, the disrelation, the chaos begetting the chaos, the truth as but another illusion, that which must perish, the rose which must fade, the heart which must stop.”
December 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;
A stage where every man must play a part ”

(The Merchant of Venice)

#ShakespeareSunday
December 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
プルーストの命日ということで、昔、墓参りした時の写真を。
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
“The night has come to me
exactly this way, as a premonition—”

—— Louise Glück, from “Landscape” (“Averno”)
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Reposted by Takeshi Sudo
“In its gusts it bears a broth of little beasts—birds, beetles, spiders tethered to their skeins of silk, seeds in forms of puffs and parachutes.”

Daniel Mason
📖 North Woods, page 207.

#SundaySentence
The wind writes two stories..
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM