Trust

I have mentioned something along these lines before, certainly, but I need to be more trusting of myself.

I always thought that English Settlement was inferior to Black Sea, mostly because it has too much "jittery" XTC vs. "flowy" XTC, where things are all soothingly melodious.

We-hell, I listened to this last week and was for the most part rewarded with affirmation that I was right then, am right now and am for the most part correct about everything ever.

Although I was happy because I had forgotten about "All of the Sudden (It's Too Late)" which rules and I duly put it on a truck CD. 

This also all plays into the whole Bangsian school of thought about whether one is "ready for" or perhaps "worthy of" some of the more prestige records.  Like, I can say that the Band blows (they do), but maybe I just haven't listened to them in the right frame of mind, perhaps the fault is mine. Or someone today like the National, maybe.  Who else? 

The point of all this rambling is that my first instinct in these matters is generally correct.

Also: I just may have written this way in the distant past, what with my new affinity for post-scheduling, and may "now" have indeed have grown to like English Settlement much more in the interval.

Oh, to know you the better, People of the Future!

Equanimity of mild obsessions previously mentioned here recognized!

This little smidge from The Defense by ol' VN made me think anew:

"'Being born in this world is hardly to be borne,'" Luzhin senior dictated steadily, strolling back and forth about the classroom. "Being born in this
world is hardly to be borne." And this his son wrote, practically lying on
the table and baring his teeth in their metallic scaffolding, and simply left
blanks for the words "born" and "borne."

See, this is from one of the translated-from-Russian early Nabokov books.

So, answer me: are we to believe that the Cyrillic words for born and borne are also so similar that one letter makes the difference in meaning exactly? HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? This is the same problem I have with translated poetry...all foreign words also match rhymes and meanings exactly with their translated English versions? Goddammit!

I was ruminating over this when I had a revelation: my concern with this was of the exact same intensity as my concern with how comic book artists can make the same character recognizable from any position, no matter what he/she is doing...

To recap: I feel the same confused way about these two things, to the exact same degree. Runners-up include: how printing presses really work, how I've never seen photos of cassettes being manufactured, what the hell The Good Wife is about, etc.