Still 'harping' on

‘Words’ was the wrong song. Damn. It actually says that words FADE and that meaning can only be found in your heart. How peculiarly corny. Typical SA love song. No. Typical love song, internationally. Anyway this whole thing kind of screws up my entire argument in the previous posting. Now I have to find another song.

What I have found is another passage about music in the book I’m reading at the moment, and this time I’ve kept track of it so I can quote it directly. After this, I’ll get off this point and find something interesting to talk about, although nothing much else is happening in my life at the moment.

Well, the book is by Ian McEwan and is called Saturday. It’s quite good, but I’ll give you a full synopsis when I’m finished.

“… and walks into the middle of the dark auditorium, towards the great engine of sound. He let’s it engulf him. There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they’ve ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything you have to others, but lose nothing of yourself. Out in the real world there exist detailed plans, visionary projects for peaceable realms, all conflicts resolved, happiness for everyone, for ever – mirages for which people are prepared to die and kill. …But only in music, and only on rare occasions, does the curtain actually lift on the stream of community, and it’s tantalizingly conjured, before fading away with the last notes.”

As of yesterday, I've started a new book. The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Guevara. I'm sure there'll be some quotable quotes in that one too. Unfortunately, this can't be a really long blog cause I have some emailing to do and also I want to have another stab at those pictures.

Word of the day is back!

suc·cinct (sk-sngkt) adj. suc·cinct·er, suc·cinct·est

succinctly
adv : with concise and precise brevity; to the point; "Please state your case as succinctly as possible"; "he wrote compactly but clearly" [syn: compactly]
Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University

And that's how I'll end this post.

Goodbye.