Assorted Links

1) Germany's Literary houses and why they're not common elsewhere. Read here.

2) "Are certain kinds of modern art too complex for anybody to understand? Fred Lerdahl thinks so, at least as far as his chosen art form is concerned." More here. A good sentence reads: ""Much contemporary music," he says, "pursues complicatedness as compensation for a lack of complexity."

3) Bad sentences. Some are truly appetite-suppressingly bad! Read here.