#galumphing

The poem was Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. I recited it start to finish, missing ne’er a word, and was met not with applause but immediate questions about why that is the poem I have memorized.  

come on and galumph with me

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I'll never forget first hearing the Rite of Spring – I still think it's the most remarkable piece of music ever written; it's more modern than anything. Nobody's caught up with Stravinsky yet – like late Beethoven. Beethoven's my kind of bloke, there's an uncertainty, the tripping over the furniture and the awkwardness, the 'galumphing' factor. It's like Joyce – he takes the detritus of life and turns it into diamonds. The slow movement of Op 132 is almost my favourite piece of music. You wonder, is there a Catherine Cookson sensibility about listening to it, making it into a kind of musical soap opera. But no – you don't let the biography get mixed up with it.

i drew @galumphing ’s avi on dappervolk too cos they got me to join so likee im figuring out what i want out of this style and am actually having fun !

Antonio Malpica. Billie Luna Galofrante