Good to hear from you again. I've been idle a lot here, or throwing in banalities. Nice to see you writing.
We had 17-year cicadas the year I turned 17, and they returned last summer though I was never there to hear them 'sing'. When they came around 18 years ago, we decided that the steadiest part of their cry (which oscillates a great deal) was a G-flat. I can recall a woman I was haplessly infatuated with telling me this over the phone from beside her piano. I miss the cicadas more than I miss her, though.
good to see your cat and pineapple too. i posted that little entry, wet for a swim in the pelting rain, changed it - and there was your comment in the meantime. it might be more readable now. a G-flat? cicadas in unison are bit like the scream of passion - and the apocalypse.
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We had 17-year cicadas the year I turned 17, and they returned last summer though I was never there to hear them 'sing'. When they came around 18 years ago, we decided that the steadiest part of their cry (which oscillates a great deal) was a G-flat. I can recall a woman I was haplessly infatuated with telling me this over the phone from beside her piano. I miss the cicadas more than I miss her, though.
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Yeah. Definitely. And they do it in G-flat, if one piano player from Baltimore is to be trusted.
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