“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.”
Leo Tolstoy 1897
Some wartime panels from Crockett Johnson's classic Barnaby. The strip ran in the influential liberal paper PM and like the political cartoons of Dr. Seuss, often took aim at the right wingers of the era. One of the ghosts' watch runs backward. I believe another may be making fun of Hearst.
For a while now I've been filling in the gaps in my musical literacy. When looking for an introduction to musical history and theory, there's really only one place to start.
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