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December 22, 2024

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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for that same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours.

Thought:

“Stood pooled in porch light
Cut my shadow off with a dull knife
Whispered in its ear, then sent it off into the night

Set the trap for the mice, the rats
Whatever’s in the pipes

Corner of your eye, the edge of the white
That’s where I live, I’m set for life
“

billy woods | “houthi”

Christian Molenaar

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