Worth Noting: E.M. Cioran on the purposes of writing

I found this wonderful quote used as in epigram in Kurt Russell's new book I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son. It is from E. M. Cioran: "Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone."

Worth Noting: Corinna De Fonseca-Wollheim on early music group Les Delices

In 3/15/2015 NYT,  CorinnaDe Fonseca-Wollheim  writes of how early modern music group Les Delices leader and oboeist, Debra Nagy plays a baroque oboe. The instrument  allows her to shape more expressive  notes than she could on a modern oboe. She writes, "One of the most delightful aspects of any performance by Les Delices is this exploration  of the dramatic potential  of pitch- how to curve, stretch or wilt a note in a way that's emotionally resonant."

Worth noting: Karl Ove Knausgaard on American individualism

From the NYT Magazine (March 1, 2015) article, My Saga: Part One:

I had never really understood how a nation that so celebrated the individual could obliterate all differences the way this country did. IN a system of mass production, the individual workers are replaceable and the products are identical. The identical cars are followed by identical gas stations, identical restaurants, identical motels and, as an extension of these, by identical TV screens, which hang everywhere in this country, broadcasting identical entertainment and identical dreams. Not even the Soviet Union at the height of its power had succeeded in creating such a unified, collective identity as the one Americans lived their lives within. When times got rough, a person could abandon one town in favor of another, and that new town would still represent the same thing.

Was that what home was here? Not the place, not the local, but the culture, the general?