“…Tuvan throatsong rendition of “Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer,†arranged by Harry Partch. With the puzzling (and not a little disturbing) exception of his duet with Diamanda Galas on “Frosty the Snowman,†the Italian semiologist hardly takes a false aesthetic step. The liner notes also feature Eco’s now-classic essay on the traditional holiday sweater as a locus of commodity resistance, and a gatefold of photographs in which he models some of his own hand-knitted examples. They aren’t all to my own taste, or even wearable on human bodies, but you can tell he means every stitch and you know I can’t resist earnest failures, and brave approaches to the rim of disaster.”
Leaving me wondering whether Harry is related to Virgil.
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Thanks for the link. According to Wikipedia, Virgil was Harry’s nephew – who knew?