INAUGURAL NOTE NO. 2
"Only in language can the spirit yearn with dignity."
(Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke)
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
Wow. Not in music?
ReplyDeleteOne might argue that because music so directly triggers the emotive centers of the brain, emotional distance and therefore dignity are the losers. I can yearn while listening to viola, but the sobbing isn't very dignified!
ReplyDeleteAn interesting study on the neurophysiology: http://www.brainmusic.org/MBB91%20Webpage/Emotion_Blood.pdf
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