Jonathan Arnowitz Taylor
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Born
in Detroit, The United States
January 18
Website
Genre
Influences
Hermann Hesse
Stephen McCauley
Wolfgang Johann von Goethe
Gustav Mahler
Stephen McCauley
Wolfgang Johann von Goethe
Gustav Mahler
Member Since
March 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/jonathan_a_taylor
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The Rites of Passage (Goldberg Variations, #1)
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The Redemption of the Damned (Goldberg Variations, #2)
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Slings and Arrows
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“You can't live life backwards. And once you peel the onion, you can't unpeel it.”
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“You can't live life backwards. And once you peel the onion, you can't unpeel it.”
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“It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!”
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you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!”
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“At our age the imagination
across the sorry facts
lifts us
to make roses
stand before thorns.
Sure
love is cruel
and selfish
and totally obtuse—
at least, blinded by the light,
young love is.
But we are older,
I to love
and you to be loved,
we have,
no matter how,
by our wills survived
to keep
the jeweled prize
always
at our finger tips.
We will it so
and so it is
past all accident.”
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across the sorry facts
lifts us
to make roses
stand before thorns.
Sure
love is cruel
and selfish
and totally obtuse—
at least, blinded by the light,
young love is.
But we are older,
I to love
and you to be loved,
we have,
no matter how,
by our wills survived
to keep
the jeweled prize
always
at our finger tips.
We will it so
and so it is
past all accident.”
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“Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian culture. Opera is the birth of the theoretical man, the critical layman, not of the artist: one of the most surprising facts in the history of all the arts. It was the demand of throughly unmusical hearers that before everything else the words must be understood, so that according to them a rebirth of music is to be expected only when some mode of singing has been discovered in which textword lords it over counterpoint like master over servant: For the words, it is argued, are as much nobler than the accompanying harmonic system as the soul is nobler than the body.”
― The Birth of Tragedy
― The Birth of Tragedy


















