Romance – from the Gadfly
It’s too hot today to stay inside blogging at lunchtime, so here’s some lovely music from the Gadfly Suite by Dmitri Shostakovich. I’ve been called a Gadfly myself from time to time, but I’m also partial to a bit of romance now and then….
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July 17, 2014 at 2:41 pm
Based on the novel of the same name by a certain Mrs Voynich, whose husband gave his name to the famous Voynich manuscript.
July 17, 2014 at 2:50 pm
The Wikipedia article on the Voynich manuscript, by the way, contains some great beards. At the moment, I’m somewhere between Joannes Marcus Marci and John Dee. :-} (Will WordPress interpret this pointed-beard smiley appropriately?) My ultimate goal, of course, is the Brahe Beard.
July 17, 2014 at 2:44 pm
The only other astronomer I recall being described as a gadfly was Fred Hoyle. 😐 It was in some book, where Hoyle was referred to as a “cosmic gadfly”.