A Wise Man Once Said
“There is an inanimate object which has a capacity to exasperate which no human being will ever attain: a piano.”
— Marcel Proust
“There is an inanimate object which has a capacity to exasperate which no human being will ever attain: a piano.”
— Marcel Proust
November 26th, 2008 at 10:49 am
It’s always a treat to hear about what you’re reading and how, if at all, this moves with (or relative to) your music-making . . . are you winding your way into Proust now? And Oe–I’ve just finished his Blake-inspired novel Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age, where Hikari memorizes bird songs and rattles off K numbers . . . just yesterday, Tolstoy and Beethoven (have you read “The Kreutzer Sonata”? it was written at a time (1889) when T. was none too optimistic about music’s potentially demonic effects) . . . not to grade too far into literature that explicitly engages music; the more thrilling resonances may well reside elsewhere.
Margarita
Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred,
And of ourselves and our origins,
In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.
–Wallace Stevens
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:26 am
Great Quote by Proust..