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The Farrer Luke’s Plan
A draft page from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov reminds me of something the Farrer Luke might do in his planning stage. If only we could find something like it! — read more
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The Gospels as Wiki Pages
The Gospels were the first Wikipedia pages; any literate Christian could edit them (under the watchful eyes of apostolic moderators). Later the emergent church discovered they could use Peter’s keys to have the Gospel pages locked. — read more
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Lightning and Thunder at the End of Chopin’s Heroic Polonaise
I snatched an old CD at the Shiner resale shop, early Rubinstein performances of the seven published polonaises. When I’m in a store and I see anything with Chopin on the cover–it belongs to me! As for this find, I don’t care too much for the muffled recording quality and Rubinstein’s playing (for the most… — read more
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Why We Still Remember Vladimir Horowitz
I think one reason Vladimir Horowitz was such a memorable pianist can be explained thus: There are some truly great pieces floating around in the world of classical music, and you’ll often hear pianists make recordings of the same piece, e.g. Chopin’s Ballade in G-minor. These pianists listen to each others’ recordings and begin to… — read more
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Mark Wrote First–Ask Nietzsche!
An attempt at an a priori argument for Markan priority: Assuming the Synoptics were written for three communities, each with their own Gospel, what then? Nietzsche made something like the following observation: the more primitive a community is–think nascent, not fully established and robust, its members experiencing insecurity and weakness–the more seriously it takes the… — read more
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Interpolations | Tell-Tale Signs
Eleven hints a passage may have been interpolated (i.e. inserted into a book by a later writer): 1. The passage differs physically from the surrounding text, e.g. by way of different ink/handwriting, it looks squeezed in between two lines, etc. 2. The passage isn’t present in some version(s) of the book (often earlier versions). 7.… — read more
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