I’m not certain, but comments may now be operational for pristinemadness.com. Apparently the commenting engine that works with RapidWeaver (the software I used to build and manage the site) underwent a huge change the day before my blog went live. (I won’t actually know if they work until someone feels compelled to make a comment. If you did and it didn’t go through, drop me a note through the “Contact” page.)

You can comment as “Guest,” or edit the “Guest” button to include your name or nickname. The whole system is a little more Web 2.0 than I’m used to, but those with web accounts on facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Google Friend Connect, Yahoo, Open ID, can have their comments also show up on those pages (I think). The mind boggles.

Be on the lookout for a lengthy post on Andrés Segovia’s transcription of J. S. Bach’s Chaconne from the Partita in d minor, BWV 1004. Coming soon!

Pristine Madness is a new blog that will explore creative expression in its manifest forms, historical and current: the arts, relationships, intellect, society, education, and more than I can imagine right now.

Perhaps Robert Frost’s statement about poems could be applied to this blog: “A poem… begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness… It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.” Pristine Madness starts as a thought, a feeling, a confusion, a small piece of clarity, a connection made, something imagined—all things seeking the light of expression.

The most difficult thing for modern men and women to do is to view the mechanisms of their own age—to say nothing of actually understanding their effects. More commonly, we view the world, past and present, through the small portals of contemporary experience. What is more troubling is that these portals themselves are thought to be incredibly large lenses through which we can view truth. Pristine Madness will explore what we’re seeing, but also how and why we are seeing it.

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