Status Updates From Ugly Feelings

As I start the second ugly feeling---animatedness---later, I just want to say that I do feel stupid reading such a dense theory book. Hahaha! WTF. But I guess that's all part of the experience that is, RESEARCH. So help me God.

...tone's generality and abstractness should not distract us from the fact that it is always "about" something... [The Confidence Man], whose atonal tone we have seen to be ultimately "about" the simultaneously orderly and noisy character of tone itself.