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| Ikarus 1993 by Simon Benetton (at the Bonn Opera) |
Sometimes I think I have been kidding myself, though mostly not. There is no art to this blogging, its just another whittling stick, a way of staving off the loneliness of living while interminable hours whizz by. I should do something more constructive. Like get on with recording my songs or writing more constructively. I guess it takes a short illness for the real to come crashing through your window. I have a theory about that. Fate waits until you are down then takes its chance and then all you can do is try to reconstruct it as a song, or a poem or a fragment of thought before it gets lost on the breeze. Wallace Stevens said, '...it is the serenade/ Of a man that plays a blue guitar.' I am writing a new song now, called Fate Waits... But for now, Icarus meets Darwin in songs that link:
