Novel Eye

Matt pointed out that 8 little notes is a... I'm not sure what to call it. Misnomer? Misapprehension ? That we have broken the wavelength of sound into these arbitrary divisions , and that some (like the pentatonic scale) break it in other ways that sound strange and alien to us. Likewise I was thinking of the women who used to come into the fabric stores where I worked and be angry that we did not have the exact color of thread, or zipper to match their store-bought item. I remember saying to one woman that there is such an enormous range of colors, how could we possibly carry everything. And she said, "Well, how did the manufacturer?" I said, "I would imagine that they were dyed together." Of course, what I wanted to say was, "Lady, if you're sewing so that your thread shows that badly, then you don't know how to sew." I've been known to sew seams with whatever color is in the machine and only change when I needed to topstitch and then i...