Ortts #934

The Ice Stupas: Artificial glaciers at the edge of the Himalayas
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a spider which builds a spring-loaded web
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Spiders have been found two-and-a-half miles up in the air, and 1,000 miles out to sea.
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      Dear Friend,  Bardac has just informed me of your plan to have your Quartet, and particularly the Andante, played more softly . . . . In the name of all the gods, and mine as well, if I may ask, don't do it. Think of the difference in sound in the auditorium with and without an audience . . . . Perhaps one could soften only the viola, which covers the other instruments? Otherwise don't touch a thing and everything will turn out well.

     -- Claude Debussy, in a telegram to Maurice Ravel, the evening before a concert in which the latter's String Quartet was to be performed. [Italics added]

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The Lucrative Black Market in Human Fat
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