"One should never make a show of having a deep knowledge of any subject. Well-bred people do not talk in a superior way even about things they have good knowledge of. It is people who come from the country who offer opinions unaksed, as though versed in all manner of accomplishments. Of course some among them do have a really enviable knowledge, and it is their air of self-conceit that is so stupid. It is a fine thing when a man who thoroughly understands a subject is unwilling to open his mouth, and only speaks when he is questioned." Yoshida Kenkō, "Essays in Ideleness" (c. 1300s).

Up around 8. I have been listening to dharma talks/related interview, either in the morning or before bed, w/o mentioning it much here.
Read this: An equivalent argument could be made about song lyrics, inc. some of my own.
Updated this site - realized some of my dates are a day off b/c I left out an entry, but I don’t feel like fixing it right now.
Coffee - read to 200 in Keene and 25 p. in Copyrights/wrongs, and wrote ahead 1 p. in daybook.
Rehearsed at Michiko with Drew Gardner and Andrew Levy. Hung out for a while over coffee at Dean & Deluca afterwards.
Too late to go to Mid-Manhattan library, so worked on the Plummer interview at the Hilton near MoMa.
City Girl (Murnau 1930), w/ Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan (from The Shanghai Gesture). Very late silent (there was a compromised sound version as well), not unlike The Wind in tone. Excellent live piano score by Donald Sosin.
Had a bite at a diner, read rest of my quota of Copyrights/wrongs. The music chapter is sloppy. Uncritical understand of jazz musicians’ use of “stale” standards, misleading descriptions of “Good Times”/“Rapper’s Delight” and Aerosmith/Run DMC’s “Walk This Way.”
Finished Agoo, Property. Shorter poems of last 1/3 not as striking as “Deposition,” but the whole book is earnest and well-made.
Stuck on 7 train for a while.
Lights out 11:45.