[nesfa-reading-group] Friday's Reading Group

[David G. Grubbs]

At least two months ago, Ihad a copy of *Davy* shipped to my local library
from the Massachusetts Commonwealth catalogue. I am done with it and will
return in the next couple of days.

On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 14:12 Wesley Brodsky <wesbrodsky at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Hello Everybody;
>
> During Friday's Reading Group, we decided to go ahead with Davy by Edgar
> Pangborn for the Friday, January 3, 2025 discussion. I have ordered a copy
> which I intend to give to my local library when I finish.
>
> It was also suggested that I (Wes) send out an email to the group asking
> about who has access to "Davy"; I think now this is just to get an idea of
> how hard it is to access. People who have found access easy or difficult
> are requested to reply. Since this novel is a World Fantasy Award winner,
> and Hugo and Nebula Award nominee; is seemed odd that is seemed difficult
> to find.
>
> On a totally unrelated topic, the subject of the Chinese Mandarin language
> came up. This language has "4 tones" which specify pitch modulation as
> continuous, up, up-down, and down. Someone with a better ear for music than
> me wondered how this is reconciled with pitch in sung music. After some
> discussion about what singing, pitch, and rhyming in music was with a
> native Chinese Mandarin speaker, we came to the conclusion that the 4 tones
> take secondary importance to the pitch as composed for the music. This is
> also done in English singing, where the pitch used is ofter very different
> from that used in ordinary speech. This could lead to some confusion in
> cases like the Chinese Mandarin words for "where" and "there" which differ
> only in which tone is used. Anyway, that is my answer.
>
> -Wes
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