The alphabet always seemed to have a sort of plot to me. Here’s one possibility. THE ALPHABET It started with abundance beauty and clarity Apples and apricots for all Birds and butterflies in the blue Cats and dogs everywhere But it grew feebler and grayer As it hobbled and inched along It grew jaded and […]

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One of my student pieces, a brief song with ‘cello and piano, on a text from an English-Chinese reader. Here’s the beginning.

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A few entries on logic and rhetoric, from the Scat Noir Encyclopaedia. ALLITERATIVE METONYMY: A rhetorical device in which a noun is replaced by an associated noun beginning with the same letter; for example: It’s a digestion eat digestion world. ANAPHORIC APOSTROPHE: A rhetorical device in which a person not present is addressed repeatedly; for […]

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