Several years ago, I had the privilege to hear noted gay writer and founder of the It Gets Better Project, Dan Savage, speak to a group of educators in Seattle.
Four nights later, he hears notes being played, only this time they sound good.
"Some people can hear notes that others can't," Buckley's narrator explains.
In interviews, he has said that beneath the score's bright surfaces, he hears notes of fear and toil and sorrow.
You could hear notes of Wallace Stevens in him, and sometimes Bishop, and sometimes even Auden, but he was able to give it his own sad, affectionate jostle.
In this first story, you hear notes of Isaac Bashevis Singer; you hear Babel, a little Chekhov, some Joyce, all active influences, but above all you hear Paley inventing her own American English, one that clucks and sings.
Supposedly, you can hear notes emanating around Close's home at any time of the day.
The Federal Communications Commission ordered a hearing, noting that he once was "the most wanted computer criminal in U.S. history".
"We have won a demi-victory today," said Dominque Rondu, after the hearing, noting that the judicial panel demanded more information to justify Belgian claims against his client, who remains imprisoned until the next hearing.
