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I cried the first time I heard that. I was alone and driving home late one night.

The piece was originally written in Western style in 1959 by two Chinese men. The music was suppressed until the 1970's. Recently, the work has been "de-Westernized" by replacing the traditional orchestral instruments with traditional Chinese ones.

I Got Fronted and it Feels Like A Hug

I checked in at the Big House Blog and There I was one more time. 'Fronted' because yesterday, one of us misinterpreted an Althouse vlog reference of the movie quote from Network (1976) - "I'm as Mad As Hell and I'm Not Going To Take it Anymore". The commenter thought that Althouse was saying she, herself, was mad at her commenters. When the reference was really about something else entirely.

I'm commenting up front to say I don't believe Althouse is Mad at her Commenters. You guys and I are her commenters, btw, that's how we started. I posted a Who Am I post and it barely broke 20 comments. Message received, not so loud but clear enough, I'm under no illusions.

Commenter Freeman Hunt asks a question in the James Bond Open Thread that feels somehow appropriate here, in some tangential lighthearted context that I know Althouse could stich together with the appropriate strings that get Betamax all excited.

"Is the Internet not the best venue for unemotional people to give hugs? I submit that it is."

And then she follows up...

"Or maybe my thinking is that immediate internal states are something you have but external states, immediate or otherwise, are something you choose."

And more...

"Emotions are wonderful."

"And no, I'm not talking about oneself versus the environment. I'm talking about how you feel inside versus what you express outside. Internally, people have immediate reactions to things. That's tough to choose at the moment of an event, but the pattern can be affected over time. Long term internal states are mostly chosen, I think. External states, apart from true reflexes, can be almost entirely chosen, in my opinion. (Then those go to affecting the pattern of internal states and so on.)"

After someone says she might be stoic, Freeman Responds...

"But I'm no pantheist. And I don't think that all emotions, even negative emotions, are bad.

But do I believe in the stiff upper lip? Sure."