Built on Bones

To the glory of hell and the virtue of sin

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The price we have to pay for security is beauty. Every increase in security represents a loss of beauty. It’s like the movement of a pair of scales. I am grateful to a good horn player in a good orchestra if he cracks a note. I have the feeling that he has taken a risk, that he did not use the valve, which would have made it impossible to crack the note, although sound thus produced is ugly and unpleasant. Really beautiful sounds only materialize when a note adjoins the one that follows. In America, I am told, someone who has played three cracked notes loses his job. That’s why they use safe instruments. String players use safe fingering, it’s the same with virtually every instrument. But much that is brilliant, magnificent and really crazy occurs when we are on the verge of a catastrophe. And if we dare to go this far, we can experience things that are unbelievably [unheimlich] beautiful.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (from the notes to the Royal Concertgebouw recording of Le nozze di Figaro, 1994)

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thewayweride:

If you’re lesbian and you fall for a guy
FINE
If you’re gay and you fall for a woman
FINE
If you’re bisexual and you have a preference for girls
FINE
If you’re bisexual and you have a preference for guys
FINE
If you’re pansexual and have a preference
FINE
What’s not fine is telling someone they can’t love another person because it doesn’t fit into the confinements of a label. 

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giants-dont-scare-me: for homework the other day, my 6 year old brother had to complete this worksheet. as you can plainly see, he drew a butt on his homework for his kindergarten substitute teacher. this kid is going places for sure.

giants-dont-scare-me:

for homework the other day, my 6 year old brother had to complete this worksheet. as you can plainly see, he drew a butt on his homework for his kindergarten substitute teacher. this kid is going places for sure.