Frank Lloyd Wright / Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York City, 1939; Image © Stephen Russell Shilling.

‘nocturne op. 9 no. 2’ by chopin but you’re in a hotel lobby avoiding the rain on a cold night in an unfamiliar city, captivated by the soft piano music that reminds you of home. (youtube)

"I decided to write a song based on the first thing I saw upon opening any book, as it would be relative to that moment. I picked up a book at random, opened it, and saw 'gently weeps'. I then laid the book down again and started the song." George Harrison

Via @beatlemaniauk

A peformance of Eugene Onegin at the Bolshoi, 1994. Photos by Gueorgui Pinkhassov.

”Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and cauldron bubble”

- Song of the Witches, Macbeth

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- Will Durant, American historian

**NASA Before PowerPoint In 1961.

kaitsbookcase