Albumleaf 84: May 14, 2012 (Farmville)
There is too much history here in central Virginia to be preserved pristinely. For every monument and museum, there are another dozen Civil War relics waiting to be found and a score of dilapidated sharecropper shacks falling down in the woods. At nearby Sailor’s Creek, site of the Civil War’s last major battle, one experiences this tension between history’s permanent and transitory aspects by tuning in to 1610 AM. This radio station is supposed to inform a visitor of the battle’s events as he or she drives around the battlefields. Yet the station’s signal is rather weak. Often the tour guide’s voice disappears into a chaos of interference when the road descends into a little gully or runs alongside a power line. The experience is strange, poignant, and more profound than the dioramas housed in the park’s museum.
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Albumleaf 83: May 10, 2012 (Farmville)
HEDDA, dressed in black, is pacing back and forth in the dark room, moving out of sight toward the left. Several chords are heard on the piano. She comes in view again, returning into the drawing room.
–Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler, IV. Trans. Rolf Fjelde
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Albumleaf 82: April 8, 2012 (Farmville)
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VII. Lento
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VIII. Semplice
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IX. Lento
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Numbers I-III are here; numbers IV-VI are here.
Albumleaf 81a-b: March 2, 2012 (Farmville)
81a.
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81b.
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February 27, 2012 – 9:00 AM
IV. Afflitto e penoso
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V.
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VI. Lento — molto cantabile
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Numbers I-III are here.
February 9, 2012 – 9:00 AM
Albumleaf 80: February 7, 2012 (Farmville)
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January 26, 2012 – 9:00 AM
Albumleaf 79: January 23, 2012 (Farmville)
Though occasionally the four oakumpickers would briefly address some person or persons in the crowd below, yet the six hatchet-polishers neither spoke to others, nor breathed a whisper among themselves, but sat intent upon their task, except at intervals, when . . . two and two they sideways clashed their hatchets together, like cymbals, with a barbarous din.
–Herman Melville, Benito Cereno
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