Lapelcelery
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Posted: June 05 2009, 02:52 |
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I was reading a book last night, and there were a lengthy few passages which, though they were in fact written about J. S. Bach, seemed a better description of Amarok than I could come up with:
"The air was full of music. So full it seemed as if there was room for nothing else. And each particle of air seemed to have it's own music, so that as [he] moved his head, he heard a new and different music, though the new and different music fitted quite perfectly with the music that lay beside it in the air.
The modulations from one to another were perfectly accomplished - astonishing leaps from different keys made effortlessly in the mere shifting of the head. New themes, new strands of melody, all perfectly and astoundingly proportioned, constantly involved themselves into the continuing web. Huge slow waves of movement, faster dances that thrilled through them, tiny scintillating scampers that danced on the dances, long tangled tunes whose ends were so like their beginnings that they twisted around upon themselves, turned inside out, upside down, and then rushed off again on the back of yet another dancing melody in [the distance].
And then it was all much simpler. A single tune danced through his mind and all his attention rested upon it. It was a tune that seethed through the magical flood, shaped it, formed it, lived through it hugely, lived through it minutely was it's very essence. It bounded and trilled along, at first a little tripping tune, then it slowed, then it danced again but with more difficulty, seemed to founder in eddies of doubt and confusion, and then suddenly revealed that the edies were just the first ripples of a huge new wave of energy surging up joyfully from beneath.
[He] began very slowly to faint."
- Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
I couldn't help but think of Amarok when I read this, it just seems perfect.
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