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Writer's Diary

11/29/25

Nov 29, 2025
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On each side of repetition there is breaking forth; repetition is always a crossing over to the other side of what you were, a shooting of the gap between past and future.


The Whitmanian sun is the Coleridgean moon.


Imagine choosing the de-sacralized self-projection (of and for likes) over the Soul.


Though Glenn Gould detested Mozart, his recording of Piano Sonata #11 is sublime; one of my favorite pieces of music. A dismantling of Mozart’s brain.


Music is so often a re-finding of love.


I have two brains: iPad brain, which sucks in information like a pig in a feedlot; analog brain, which thinks, analyzes, feels.

https://matthewgasda.substack.com/falldiscount

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