The idea that life is flowing along with unsettling smoothness, the dark C-sharpness of the world sensed but not confirmed, is a resigned sort of sentiment that Beethoven probably never even felt, much less communicated.
"Which came first – the chicken or the egg?" is still one I tend to deflect as I haven't got a bleeding clue, and it seems to bring into play difficult philosophical questions that I am not equipped to process, still less communicate to a six-year-old child.
To the Editor: In noting the atrophy of conversational skills wrought by texting, e-mailing, tweeting and so on, Sherry Turkle echoes J. B. Priestley's uncannily prescient observation, deduced long before the advent of these near pre-emptive modes of human interaction: "The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate".
"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate".
But instead of traveling less or communicating less, we do the opposite: we communicate more; we travel more.
If consumption was a form of communication, then those individuals who consumed less also communicated less.
Examples of allyship are less easily communicated to the public, less easily celebrated by our community, and less easily understood by the teams themselves without a system for assessing, interpreting and conveying them.
Funny how much less we communicate with one another now that it is easy!
Less is communicated by the division of the stage floor into two panels of slick black and scuffed surfaces.
Romanians, weary of tax rises, pay cuts and poor public services, would find austerity policies more palatable if politicians stole less and communicated better.
