It begins with a meditative murmuring, as if the muses were talking quietly among themselves, their voices overlapping.
The event is called "Poetry Parnassus" -- named after Mount Parnassus, known in Greek mythology as the spiritual home of poetry, the stamping ground of the lyricist Orpheus and the hang-out for the Muses.
It is still one of the finest jests of the modern muses that this fogged-in English don was going home nights to work on perhaps the most popular adventure story ever written, thereby inventing one of the most successful commercial formulas that publishing possesses, and establishing the foundation of the modern fantasy industry.
Why not the manufacturer of the wrenches he used, or the garage door he mistakenly closed? (No mention in the record if they were sued.) If the deceased had done the work underwater, the dissenting judge muses, would the manufacturer be liable for a drowning death?
It has also made Cohen a quasi-expert on "aging stylishly, " someone who is sought after by journalists, filmmakers and everyday people for perspective on aging and access to the Advanced Style muses.
"Our dream is to have an Indian version of a global channel that can take on CNN and the BBC, " muses Prannoy Roy over a cup of tea in his office, which overlooks the main newsroom.
Fassbinder demolished the boundaries between the personal and the artistic, integrating his homosexual relationships and the illusion of conventional heterosexual domesticity with actresses who were his muses and reproducing the resulting conflicts onscreen.
Beyond just reflecting on his band, he also muses about the intersection of the arts and science, particularly by noting other scientists who also rock.
In a coffee house in Ankawa, Erbil's Christian quarter, Barcelona fan Mustapha Ergushi puffs on a hubble-bubble as he muses on the explanation for this strange infatuation.
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In this way, Mr. Kundig's work shares DNA with one of his muses, the quirky home that Palm Springs modernist Albert Frey built for himself in 1964.
Rappers aside, his muses include the Chrysler Building, the Welcome to Las Vegas sign and the Guggenheim Museum, which he plans to paint every year for the next two decades.
Wonder Woman urges Superman to address the world through the United Nations and as he flies off, she muses that she hopes he tells the world what she has always wanted to hear him say.
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Jackie Nappi, who is getting her master's with Mr. Haas, played "L'Entretien des Muses" on the Ruckers.
Shoe shopaholics and Carrie Bradshaw types surely have been inspired by the Cinderella fashion fantasy, muses Weitzman, a 26-year industry veteran.
He muses openly about the effect of a presidential run on his family life, and his wife candidly admits that she is reluctant.
Barash muses, at the end of his book, on the fact that our minds have a stubborn fondness for simple-sounding explanations that may be false.
"The cost efficiencies would be substantial, " muses Patrick Healy, president and chief executive of Issuer Advisory Group, which advises companies about the benefits and pitfalls of listing on NYSE vs. other exchanges.
"Maybe we could have launched two colors, then done red for Christmas, " muses Michael Tatelman, the new senior vice president of consumer sales.
Muses may belong to the past but thanks in part to them, a war of the sexes has been avoided on the French cultural scene.
"We need a host with personality but not too much personality, "muses Wagner, sitting in the dining room of the swank Beverly Hills Hotel, where the transplanted Hoosier was staying during a recent visit.
"Unlike the Anglo-Saxon approach, the French attitude toward cinema doesn't always make entertaining the audience a priority, " Mr. Wilson muses.
It is full of inspiration that I grew up listening to and some newfound muses that I've discovered along the way.
"There is an argument to be made that an artist or musician who dies when he's at the top has tremendous afterlife sales, " he muses.
In one generation, he often muses, his family has vaulted from the man standing at the back of the banqueting hall serving drinks to the one at the front, giving the speech from the podium.
"The iPod generation is probably the next one we'll target, " Loescher muses.
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