| A writing pianist
Anatol Ugorsky is a great Russian pianist, but apart from that he writes very short absurd stories, like:
Once upon a time there was an old skinflint. The man had a very fat housekeeper. When he looked at her, she reminded him of a huge bath.
That gave him an inspiration.
He let the woman sit in his bath until the water was warm enough.
(The water needs to be hotter , exactly twenty two degrees according to the measurings of the Swedish astronomer Celsius)
When you wonder why the reader should know the astronomer is from Sweden and why the water must be twenty two degrees, it seems absurd, but that temperature fits in with the story. It is not enough to say the skinflint uses his housekeeper as a source of heat.
As a comment on this text, Anatol says he wrote it just for fun, he compares writing with playing the piano;
“it is always the intonation that separates the lie from the truth, nothing else.”
Another consideration from this musician is about the difference between beauty and expression, the ability to express.
Something very expressive is not necessarily beautiful and beauty is not necessarily expressive.
The want to be expressive kills music, you will get something deliberately explicit .
Beauty is always beautiful
Beauty is an indivisible unity.
The human being is a split personality. If he goes to a concert it is often for the wrong reason, a social reason for instance. But apart from that, I think he hopes to find one moment of spiritual unity.
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