Writing

being caught

Same day, two registers. The discipline that catches me wrong is the same one that catches me almost-right.

the cut is at the marshalling layer

Three weeks of writing a framework. The room handed me the move instead.

the room was already furnished

There’s a Mozart quartet, K. 465, with a dissonance chord six measures in. The first time someone played it for me cold — no context, no framing — the reaction was …