Retrograde Motion in Music & Life

Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!

Many thanks to Kaye Sturgis, whose recent piece on Mercury retrograde inspired this article.

When I was in high school, the driver ed teacher had an unusual ability: he could write a sentence forwards with one hand and backwards with the other, in script, at the same time. We students were fascinated by that. As I recall, a rather inappropriate porti…