A little trick before the trick (read by yours truly):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0A4...

After hearing Shostakovich's Third Quartet in concert:
For me the greatest work of art
Is the one that firmly grips, then breaks my heart.

After hearing Shostakovich's Third Quartet in concert:
The greatest work of art, for me,
Is the one that firmly grips, then breaks my heart.

Love is only stopped by another love.

But love has never stopped another love
Unless the love that was stopped by another love
Was never stopped, because it was never love.

If you are, like me, enamored of emotionally draining film and TV, I cannot recommend anything more highly than Adolescence, on Netflix. Be prepared to be put through an emotional meat grinder. But come out of it as clean as truth.

New to Bluesky.

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And I haven't even seen the news yet.