March 29 - Messages Un-Bottled


Charles Dickens in 1857,


Walter Gropius, several years after 1910...


17th day of summer, high up 4 to 87 -- 3rd day in a row of highest temp o' year -- back to editing new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45, now page 65; and prepare instrumental parts, appropriately, for

ROMAN DE FAVVEL
(The Horse-Ass Novel -
Flattery, Avarice, Vileness, Variability, Envy, Laxity)
, Op. 276

after Gervais de Bus's Roman de Fauvel (Faus Vel - Falseness), 1314

Book I, Folio 1-2

VI. Heu, quo progreditur prevaricacio! (Oh, how the progress of prevarication!
… monophonic conductus [in 14-voice canon])...

Maundy Thursday, indeed!