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May 2009

How do you play this thing ?

May 23, 2009 15:18

Some German friends taught me a wonderful expression-katzenjammer. I don't know if I'm spelling it correctly, but the concept (German has lots of these wonderfully specific words) is a sense of let-down after a successful or pleasant event. It may be endorphin withdrawal. I have noticed there is a performance version of katzenjammer, and a bizarre thing it is. You play a concert, all goes well, the next day you pick up your violin and can't find a single note. Anywhere. The music you played only yesterday seems impossible. You have a clear memory of the concert, the applause-has someone substituted an alien untalented being in your place during the night?

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