cooking is about breaking boundaries and how boundaries are broken - do i crush garlic or cut it?

 a retreat
a concert
a music festival
a showdown
a parking lot
christmas
catharsis
a museum
a conference
a horserace
woodstock
muscle beach
the moulin rouge
a scene
cannes
a seminar
a be/love/teach/die-in
vacation
any other religious festival or holiday, maybe holloween plus holi
easter
summercamp

so when tuning was developed, the solution to being able to play in all keys with ten fingers was to create fixed strings or pipes of 11 scale degrees, each one tuned to a pitch that was a compromise between all the various shades of pitch that scale degree could have.  so for example the major third on the piano... E is a tolerable major third up from C and also a tolerable major second up from D, but not a beautiful third or second.

it would be annoying to add more strings or pipes for the other notes, since then you couldn't reach an octave with one hand using our tradition keyboard layout.

now that we have electronic keyboards, there is no reason to stick with the one-to-one key to pitch relationship.  each degree (keyboard key) of the scale can have several tunings. 

someone build it, dammit!

so i'm making cuts in tatiana's letter scene from eugene onegin.  i got it down to 12 pages.
when it's short it becomes a different aria, especially around the line, "voobrazi ya zdes' odna, nekto menya ne ponimaet" "imagine i'm here alone, no one understands me". 

in the shortened version she's a girl making an unreasonable demand on a man - "love me and take me away from here because i need you"  but in the 18 page version it becomes the universal unreasonable demand - "love me because i need you" 

is there any time when that demand is just? 

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 a retreat
a concert
a music festival
a showdown
a parking lot
christmas
catharsis
a museum
a conference
a horserace
woodstock
muscle beach
the moulin rouge
a scene
cannes
a seminar
a be/love/teach/die-in
vacation
any other religious festival or holiday, maybe holloween plus holi
easter
summercamp

a camp meeting
a revival
the 4th of july
a panic
a renegade hollywood backlot/soundstage (where the grips and engineers also act and direct)
a pickup game in an abandoned lot
labor day
a tailgate party (where we're also the football players, cheerleaders, announcers, refs, food)
a rave
a monster truck rally
altamont
a carnival
Carnival
a release valve for capitalist accumulation (social and material)
charismatic religious transformation (as dave hickey puts it)
ekstasy
a masked ball
a puppet show with stuff (michael, who's the stuff guy?)(and role reversal)
the tireswing
a temporary trailer park
"hey let's go hang out in the playground"
a holding environment (psych)
the junkyard/the dump (for pickers) or the freestore
a fertility right (exuberant means overly fruitful)
irrigation farming
car camping
the county fair
an intermezzo
a family reunion
a parade
an imaginary garden with real toads
a gated community
the galleria
a work camp
an orgy
re-creation