Tag Archives: Arthur Schopenhauer

In Praise of German Culture

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Ron Pavellas

Learned Through My Father My father was a Germanophile even though we haven’t any family history rooted in the Germanic peoples, except for a Dutch ancestor who emigrated to Nieuw Amsterdam in the 17th Century. Dad belonged to the German Club … Continue reading →

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Music as Metaphor

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Ron Pavellas

Assertions on the nature of music 1. Music is an absolute, existing outside of Man, along with all the other abstractions assigned by him to The Great Everything (TGE) which is too vast and impenetrable to be truly known—except, perhaps, … Continue reading →

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