tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post3691396494762614711..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Music while writing--and while not writing--Marly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-80628597017076047532014-03-22T07:03:13.113-04:002014-03-22T07:03:13.113-04:00CLICK HERE for some more comments, some by or abou...<a href="https://www.facebook.com/marly.youmans/posts/10152397974092289?comment_id=33746764&offset=0&total_comments=8&notif_t=share_comment" rel="nofollow">CLICK HERE</a> for some more comments, some by or about painters. I've had enough painter friends who paint while listening to music to think that it must be very common. Perhaps it's because they're not competing Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-33705069711585358152014-03-21T15:39:36.513-04:002014-03-21T15:39:36.513-04:00Oh, I'd never thought about partial deafness c...Oh, I'd never thought about partial deafness choosing your music--I know it becomes hard to hear where there is background noise, but that's about all I knew. Another wonderful thing about growing older... earwise, what bothers me is tintinnabulation. Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-37587633521091235282014-03-21T14:35:07.012-04:002014-03-21T14:35:07.012-04:00I used to listen to a great deal of music at one t...I used to listen to a great deal of music at one time, but never as background music. But then I rarely listened to "popular" music(?). My practice of listening to music began to wane when I became more and more deaf. Hearing aids of one kind or another has never done the trick. Thus I can listen to some Shostakovitch for example, but very little Mozart, in whose music large Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-55544060996670014412014-03-21T14:09:37.132-04:002014-03-21T14:09:37.132-04:00Paul,
Going away to do book events is my early di...Paul,<br /><br />Going away to do book events is my early dismissal. And the rare nothing-to-do vacation...<br /><br />Tim,<br /><br />Cooperstown in one of those places with a boarding school tradition, and so some children disappear from public school around 6th to 8th grade... <br /><br />Home schoolers can accomplish the work in an 8-3 school day in much less time, and so if they have a good Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-78292465555402628412014-03-21T11:11:29.439-04:002014-03-21T11:11:29.439-04:00Parents and early dismissal? Perhaps the British h...Parents and early dismissal? Perhaps the British had the right idea with boarding schools. On the other hand, home schoolers never have early dismissal .... do they? This leads to a question: is parenting compatible or incompatible with creativity? Has anyone ever studied and written about the correlations?R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-44392345944102727052014-03-21T11:03:36.188-04:002014-03-21T11:03:36.188-04:00That was so nicely expressed!
If only parents a...That was so nicely expressed! <br /><br />If only parents also had early dismissals! Oh dear… life is wonky sometimes!Paul Digbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-38892890420318000962014-03-21T10:48:27.348-04:002014-03-21T10:48:27.348-04:00Well, I like curmudgeons, so there! Though you cou...Well, I like curmudgeons, so there! Though you could wear tinted glasses and ear plugs... Or maybe a low-brimmed hat!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-33209447546746463582014-03-21T10:47:37.709-04:002014-03-21T10:47:37.709-04:00I was thinking afterward about the temporality of ...I was thinking afterward about the temporality of each, how you keep tipping forward with each word, and how the words contain expectation. Yes, it's a conflict to me as well.<br /><br />Silence is beautiful, especially when it was recently broken by many voices. As it will be this morning--kids arriving soon! Dratted early dismissals... XDMarly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-79844999753495114142014-03-21T10:35:36.662-04:002014-03-21T10:35:36.662-04:00The sound of silence is rather beautiful.
Music? T...The sound of silence is rather beautiful.<br />Music? That is for listening to.<br />It's rather like good food? One can sit down and enjoy it fully, or one can eat 'on the go' all day and just swallow calories.<br />Actually - I'm all for the latter. HAHA!<br /><br />I could no more concentrate on writing while there was music in the background than compose music with other musicPaul Digbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-33683550892487145692014-03-21T10:14:31.065-04:002014-03-21T10:14:31.065-04:00If I were to use earplugs, I would still have the ...If I were to use earplugs, I would still have the visual distractions of animated, inconsiderate library patrons. Grumble, grumble, grumble! Besides . . . it is part of my curmudgeonly mystique to complain rather than either find a solution or tolerate distractions. Growl!R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1243757295705650932014-03-21T10:00:15.618-04:002014-03-21T10:00:15.618-04:00I wonder if I did when I was younger--don't re...I wonder if I did when I was younger--don't really remember. With a family of five people, I came to appreciate silence more, I imagine.<br /><br />Yes, that is odd, though electronic noise is not the same thing as the real thing--much easier to blur and ignore and set at the volume you desire, I suppose. And you can't turn off your library noise. Have you tried those French earplugs of Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-15360459932323774612014-03-21T09:48:39.428-04:002014-03-21T09:48:39.428-04:00Oddly enough, I no longer listen to music while wo...Oddly enough, I no longer listen to music while working (reading, studying, or writing), though I did in the past and preferred Mozart and his contemporaries, but now I can (and do) have the television on almost all the time (usually TCM or History channel -- preferred -- or the 24 hour news channels) -- not for the visuals but for the "white noise" background sound at very low volume. R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-28849661110743260332014-03-21T09:44:33.131-04:002014-03-21T09:44:33.131-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.com