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Ol' Atonal Music - genius! I'm going to read the music post later as it looks like it deserves proper time, thank you

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Noice

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Sep 26Liked by Lev Parikian

Berlin: Nostalgia??!! Dear god I had a panic attack before they got anywhere near sign 5 / saluting / watching for traffic on left which should give you precedence but may not.

And then atonal music.

Going back to bed, that’s me done for the day.

Retires.

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Well, ‘algia’ does mean ‘pain’, after all.

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😂😂

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I saw an exhibition of those inside-instrument prints printed large at a pub around the coast- Parrotdog. I thought they were beautiful and spent a fair bit of time studying them. I didn't see that flute one, though, and it reminds me of a story my friend Andrew told me concerning my Dad, who used to be a Baroque flute and recorder maker. Apparently my Dad had invented a tool to assess the straightness of the sides of the interior hole of the instrument: it was a light that shone down the hole. It didn't have a name so Andrew christened it 'The Whinray one-way wind-way sun-ray'.

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Excellent name for it

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The video about how to get to Berlin is enlightening! I visited East Germany a couple of times. It was much easier to get in at Checkpoint Charlie, though I did have to have my luggage searched. Once in East Germany, it was relatively easy to travel round, but we did have East German escorts.

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I am under 45 and I have so many questions about the Soviet checkpoints 😶

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(why must you demand to see a Soviet solider and not an East German one? Why must they not stamp your passport? Why must you salute? Why must they not see the travel pack?)

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I suspect these are questions that would have earned you a lengthy spell in prison.

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I suspect you’re right

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Sep 21Liked by Lev Parikian

"Sit up and use your ears like a man!"

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Sep 21Liked by Lev Parikian

Saving all the links! Hopped onto Spotify to already start the challenge as I read the Psyche piece. Great six things 🤗

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Brilliant new things to see and listen to. Thanks

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Sep 21Liked by Lev Parikian

Lovely. Thanks Lev.

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