Ah, Alkan. One of my favorite piano composers. I recall hearing that he was the only pianist who made Liszt nervous to perform for.
Apparently, the story that he died when a bookcase fell on him as he was taking out a volume of the Talmud is not true. The Book of Lists is not trustworthy for that sort of thing, which I'm sure comes as a shock.
I only did a few letters of February as there were only a handful of people I wanted to write to, really. And one of them was returned.
The stat about MIT graduates' debt load is impressive, and heartening. A book I keep meaning to read one of these days, Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber, says that Aristotle would think of the conditions a lot of Americans are living under as a form of debt slavery, and I think a case can be made for student loans as a form of indenture.
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Date: 2012-04-11 09:44 pm (UTC)Apparently, the story that he died when a bookcase fell on him as he was taking out a volume of the Talmud is not true. The Book of Lists is not trustworthy for that sort of thing, which I'm sure comes as a shock.
I only did a few letters of February as there were only a handful of people I wanted to write to, really. And one of them was returned.
The stat about MIT graduates' debt load is impressive, and heartening. A book I keep meaning to read one of these days, Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber, says that Aristotle would think of the conditions a lot of Americans are living under as a form of debt slavery, and I think a case can be made for student loans as a form of indenture.