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Physical deformities in literary characters. And blindness!

Schmitt Sonatina (G - 2 page, in AABB form)

Kirnberger: Lullaby
Andre: Sonatina

Use of the seasons, whether symbolic or ironic. Intertextuality, or "it's all one story."

Interesting comment that there's record of an author stating all the stories have been written and we can only retell them (with variation)...4500 years ago!

Carefree (C) by DG Turk
Adagio (C) WA Mozart

Three by Daniel Turk:
Miniature Rondo
Evening Song
The Hunters

Austronesian expansion from South China to the nearby islands (at least the islands start nearby, but then extend for many 100s of miles).

Examples, if we needed convincing, that many people today are lonely, even if there may seem to be other people around them.

Today, 3 by Daniel Gottlob Turk:
Gavotte (A)
A Regal Dance (G)
Serenade (F)

Still evident struggles with RL coordination on today's 3 pieces:
Ecossaise by CM von Weber
Sonatina by Jakob Schmitt
Bagatelle by Hummel

Movt. 7 and the coda of the 7 German Dances by Haydn.

Movts. 5&6 of the 7 German Dances of Haydn

Detailed examination of why things happened as they did in New Guinea and Australia.

Discussion of water-drenched characters and baptism as a possible interpretation.

Development of written languages. A very few invented it independently, some heard of the idea without details and developed their own system, and a larger number copied someone else's system and adapted it to their own language.

Haydn, 7 German Dances, #3-4.

Finished up the chapter on nasty diseases, eg smallpox, and their effect on attacked societies without immunity. Now looking at the development of writing systems.

Haydn, 7 German Dances, #1&2

Discussions of non-sex things being about sex, and sex scenes being about other things. "What's up with that?" he says. :-)

I resisted the idea of rereading this book, but I do find some of its short affirming thoughts encouraging. I'm sticking with it for the year.

Technically not actually 50% done, but on track to finish this entry-per-day book by year end, so...half done. :-)

Curious how the January chapter seems positive and inspiring to me, but the June entries on Deception seem so unethical. I find myself reading with an eye to identifying those deceptive tactics in others, not as techniques I want to apply myself.

The chapters on domestication of plants and of animals were quite informative and enlightening.

Seeing politics in literature, with examples of Dickens, Poe, Woolf, et al.

Symbolism discussed. My takeaway: it's a collaboration between the writer and me, the reader, so I need to engage with the text and question what things mean or might mean because the writer is not going to hand it over (at least, not if it has any depth).

Up to word 65 - essentially 2/3 done.

Half done, by word count. Somewhat interesting how many words seem to be in this list because they _were_ used at some point but no longer are, such as "fopdoodle."

Interesting trivia bit: a typical English speaker probably knows in the neighborhood of 50,000 words (many formednusing prefixes and suffixes, eg happy, unhappy, happily, unhappily, etc.).