Perhaps you will enjoy this excerpt from Japan’s Total Empire, because who doesn’t lay awake at night wondering why Japanese discussions of wartime complicity and postwar victimhood haven’t reached the same ardent level that we see in Deutschland?
Or, because it’s Friday and Brahms is still living in the man’s shadow, some Beethoven cello sonata excerpts for your delectation and critique:
Vamoose!
Adam Cathcart 
I’ve much enjoyed catching up on your blog. I thought the poem, “Augur the Year of the Tiger” was lovely, and I got a kick out of “It’s a motif! With which Beethoven is obsessed!”