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“... died, leaving Lake Onondaga so polluted with calcium carbonate and mercury that it would take, Pierre Laszlo reports, an estimated $600 million to clean up. Of all the iniquities associated with humanity’s need for salt and greed for money, and many more are discussed in these nuggetty books, the French salt tax, the gabelle – not completely done ...”

“... by Painlevé.) Among composers, he knew the Futurist Luigi Russolo, Edgar Varèse and later Pierre Henry, whose music he used to score The Love Life of the Octopus in 1965. The pile-up of names is important, because Painlevé seems to have learned from all of them. His films are obsessionally focused on minute anatomy, but aesthetically they invoke ...”

“... for a single source of Vedic and Greek prosody on the basis of research by the musicologists Pierre Aubry and Maurice Emmanuel. In turn, Emmanuel’s theory of additive rhythm was taken up by his student Olivier Messiaen. Jules Combarieu’s La Musique et la magie (1909) argued that secular and religious song had their roots in magical ...”