Good Night

Good Morning

Tuesday Thoughts

It felt like a very long day toady, although I did not leave till midday. I guess it was the evening pub visit i did in Rochester after having done two techy visits in Hempstead Valley and Chatham.
I arrived home nine this evening and had a mini snooze.

The weather has been dry, sometimes cloudy and yet some days had more sunshine, and yet so far this week it has been humid. The temperature daytime has peaked at 23 C but midnight it is still 16 C! I walked home this evening from the train station in just T shirt and shorts -- and now naked writing this as I just had a shower.

Anyway, tomorrow is a day of doing nothing. Listening to music and reading.

Now, I just have just a couple of reports to finish off.

Word Of The Day

Today's wonderful word is -

palimpsest


[ˈpalɪm(p)sɛst]
NOUN
1. a manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing.

2.something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.
"Sutton Place is a palimpsest of the taste of successive owners"

In textual studies, a palimpsest is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off so that the page can be reused for another document. Pergamene (now known as parchment) was made of lamb, calf, or goat kid skin (best made in ancient Pergamon) and was expensive and not readily available, so in the interest of economy a pergamene often was re-used by scraping off the previous writing. In colloquial usage, the term palimpsest is also used in architecture, archaeology, and geomorphology to denote an object made or worked upon for one purpose and later reused for another, for example a monumental brass the reverse blank side of which has been re-engraved.




The Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, a Greek manuscript of the Bible from the 5th century, is a palimpsest.

Farewell

Music for the night people -

Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor "Farewell"

Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor "Farewell", Hob. I:45 (1772)

00:00 - Allegro assai
07:08 - Adagio
21:36 - Menuet: Allegretto; Trio
26:22 - Finale: Presto; Adagio

Performed by Charles Mackerras and the Orchestra of St. Luke's (Telarc: 1989).

Painting: Pushkin's Farewell to the Sea, Ivan Aivazovsky & Ilya Repin

The Adagio at the end of the symphony was meant to be a subtle hint Haydn gave to his patron, as he had forced all his musicians to stay at his summer residence longer than they expected. The Adagio is therefore structured in such a way that musicians stopped playing and left in turn, meaning that "they wanted to go away".


Enjoy

Good Night