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Choreography, finally, becomes a profession. In making ballets, you cannot sit and wait for the Muse. Union time hardly allows it, anyhow. You must be able to be inventive at any time. You can’t be like the cook who can cook only two dishes: you must be able to cook them all.
George Balanchine, Balanchine’s Complete Stories of the Great Ballets

Sir Peter Ustinov, actor, director, producer, playwright, raconteur and a host of other things ...

Kafka
Malcolm Pasley recently died, and Jeremy Adler writes:
Malcolm Pasley was the doyen of Kafka editors, whose stewardship of the great critical edition of Kafka's works earned him an international reputation. In a distinguished career he laid a new, secure foundation for Kafka studies, explained the writer's practice, and helped to preserve his work for posterity.
The whole Kafka-manuscript debates (and there are a lot of them) always get us in a tizzy. From Max Brod's outrageous betrayal (tempered, vaguely, by the fact that his was an understandable refusal to do as he had been instructed) to Brod's (ab)use of his position as controller of the manuscripts all the way to the current state of affairs poor Franz K. can't be pleased by how things turned out.
· Lightning was a mad grin in the room, thunder a shudder over all the earth
· Parsley (sic) is Able to Kook Them All: We very much like the idea of the past, present and future being connected
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