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They say the ear bone, shaped like the bowl
of a tiny spoon, lasts longest when we die.
— Jan 30, 2022 08:14AM
of a tiny spoon, lasts longest when we die.
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Many composers have played the viola. It does not have the brilliance of the violin or the power of the cello, but when playing it your hear everything going on around you, all the relationships and harmonies, from inside. It's a writer's instrument, inward and between.
— Jan 31, 2022 03:21AM
Imi
is on page 54 of 131
He catches fever, shivers till the morning coach.
His bag, his manuscripts, are soaked.
Sometimes, in catastrophe, you have to slam the door
and save what you've made as best you can.
He shows his friends the music: waterstains
like scars on a country terrorised by war.
— Jan 30, 2022 08:50AM
His bag, his manuscripts, are soaked.
Sometimes, in catastrophe, you have to slam the door
and save what you've made as best you can.
He shows his friends the music: waterstains
like scars on a country terrorised by war.
Imi
is on page 51 of 131
who was weak now, had to prop his elbow
to hold a violin. [...]
The names of where these players came from,
Ljubljana Hungary Germany Iraq,
[...]
I learned that music comes from everywhere.
That it takes strength to hold a violin,
that music crosses languages
and is mysteriously connected
to what we feel
— Jan 30, 2022 08:47AM
to hold a violin. [...]
The names of where these players came from,
Ljubljana Hungary Germany Iraq,
[...]
I learned that music comes from everywhere.
That it takes strength to hold a violin,
that music crosses languages
and is mysteriously connected
to what we feel
Imi
is on page 16 of 131
Now so many people I loved have died,
others lost in the wisps and fogs of Alzheimer's,
I'd like to hold on to that
looking back
to us three struggling with the notes
and the other two listening, waiting their turn.
Here we are still, the five of us,
trying to get the counting right.
— Jan 30, 2022 08:23AM
others lost in the wisps and fogs of Alzheimer's,
I'd like to hold on to that
looking back
to us three struggling with the notes
and the other two listening, waiting their turn.
Here we are still, the five of us,
trying to get the counting right.
Imi
is on page 8 of 131
but he was the one who made you,
beat the notes into you on the clavier
viola, violin
your response to challenge ever after will be attack.
You will need no one. Only the relationship
of sound and key. You improvise.
— Jan 30, 2022 08:15AM
beat the notes into you on the clavier
viola, violin
your response to challenge ever after will be attack.
You will need no one. Only the relationship
of sound and key. You improvise.
