[HN Gopher] Bartok's Monster - Stalking the dead composer throug...
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       Bartok's Monster - Stalking the dead composer through Transylvania
       (2013)
        
       Author : robtherobber
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2024-03-29 12:50 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (harpers.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (harpers.org)
        
       | TheRealQueequeg wrote:
       | If you found this interesting, I recommend Kirk's newer book on
       | his traipsing around Transylvania, etc... called "Avoid the Day"
       | (https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/avoid-the-day_jay-kirk/2130934...)
        
       | WithinReason wrote:
       | "...Bartok walking in the park one day with his wife, when a big
       | wasp flies past -- zzzzzzzzzzt -- and, either fearful of the bug
       | or just testing her husband's entomological savvy, she says,
       | "Bela, what was that?" And he goes: "G-sharp.""
        
         | PatronBernard wrote:
         | "Yeah okay Bela I get it you got absolute pitch, sheesh..."
        
         | perihelions wrote:
         | Correct answer would have been bee flat.
        
           | WithinReason wrote:
           | Especially after you swat the bee
        
       | moomin wrote:
       | Now that's a good piece of writing.
        
       | jschveibinz wrote:
       | Very well-written article. Thank you for posting.
        
       | newprint wrote:
       | as someone who is from this region, thank you ! I had no idea.
        
       | mylittlebrain wrote:
       | "... he wandered the countryside on one of his peasant-hunting
       | expeditions". Grissly hobby or article needed better reviewing.
        
         | tldrthelaw wrote:
         | I believe he was indeed, in a sense, hunting peasants.
        
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