(301) A (very) palpable HIT.

On the evening of November 29th 2025 I got this e mail from Jason Kouchak -

Is RK mentioning the song

Ideal for a Christmas warmer ….x

This was a follow up to something I had sent him on November third -

On 3 Nov 2025, at 19:01, Harold Plaskett <...   ...   ... @yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

I´m not certain... but from what Keene told me he might... he just MIGHT be going to do something in The Article on me and my Blog... and add a link to your version, well, OUR version of
Café au Lait!
EmojiEmojiEmoji
Stay tuned.

XXX 
J. 

And his response of November 3rd -

Jason Kouchak 
From: ...   ...   ...@gmail.com
To:Harold Plaskett
Mon, 3 Nov at 22:59
Lovely idea !xxx

(Raymond Keene had made some noises about, perhaps, giving my coincidence material "a write up". I thanked him and even mentioned that I had also written a couple of songs and sung them, a cappella, at Soundcloud, adding that Jason had set one - Café au Lait - to a tune and even recorded our joint effort. I attached that recording for Keene´s appraisal.)

Keene had already published in The Article a piece which referred to Kouchak and to another Grandmaster, Jon Levitt, who had branched into writing music - Amadeus ex machina: chess, AI and music | TheArticle

https://www.thearticle.com/amadeus-ex-machina-chess-ai-and-music

My e mail interchanges with Kouchak continued... with my mentioning that, at the time Jay had e mailed me on November 29th, I was reading Keene´s piece in The Article about the artist Duchamp´s love of chess.

And Jay replied that he too had been reading that article!

Then I e mailed him this -

Estupendo!

I'm actually working on another song at the moment -
Hanging In There
I'll complete it and then record it at Soundcloud later this week, for the world and his wife...
... and yourself. EmojiEmoji

Meantime, these are the only two instances at my Blog (SNAPSHOTS) which feature a guy called Kouchak -

Emoji


(4) Timepieces stopping, mobiles misbehaving, Spring Time and Nazi lies


To which he replied with -

Hanging 
In 
There❗️

a palpable HIT (Hamlet) xx


And that´s the point of this Blog Entry.

I e mailed him back with -

Harold Plaskett 
From:haroldplaskett@yahoo.co.uk
To:Jason Kouchak
Sat, 29 Nov at 22:36
"A palpable hit!" 

..and I came across that (mis)quote from Hamlet earlier today, too!!

For I knew the line is delivered by Osric in the play´s final scene and is actually

"A hit. A very palpable hit." 

As you may hear Robin Williams pronounce at 3:40.01 here -https://m.ok.ru/video/7252625787590

And I had come across the same (mis)quote from Hamlet earlier that day. It was from a piece in The Guardian with reference to an article by a doctor about an actor having been seriously wounded by a blade during a performance of Julius Caesar.

Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar | Life and style | The Guardian 

I had noted that (mis)quote in the same piece the previous day, November 28th 2025, too.

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