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 Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:11 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:12 pm
“We are going to examine how they [fantastical images] tell us something about the “real” world, and I am hoping this kind of analysis helps you when you sit down at your desk. It helps me. And yet doing so is like practicing scales. You practice the scales until your fingers and ears know them; but to play a piece of music, to play an improvised solo, you absolutely don’t play a scale. You use pieces of scales. You use notes, chords, keys, consonance and dissonance. But you play a mood, a memory, a seduction, an apology, a kiss on your sleeping twelve-year-old’s forehead – the child who, when you drop her off at the door to her school, blushes, says a quick good-bye, and no longer touches you before she leaves.”
--Laura Williams McCaffrey
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:50 pm
The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
- Emily Dickinson
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:14 pm
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:28 pm
"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping"
-Kenneth Tynan
““You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Only no sky can blind you now. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, your eye will no longer trace constellations. You’ll care only about the darkness and you’ll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you’re some kind of indispensable universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay. It will get so bad you’ll be afraid to look away, you’ll be afraid to sleep.””
-Mark Z. Danielewski
“Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach, if you’ve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that you’ve got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour, which if you do consider only goes to show what kind of idiot you truly are because microwaves are way too small for anyone, let alone you, to climb into.”
-Mark Z. Danielewski
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