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RICHIE TENENBAUM /

  

DR VON HALLER:  ALL OF THIS IS PART OF THE CHILDHOOD SCENE.  WE USUALLY REMEMBER PAINFUL AND HUMILIATING THINGS.  BUT ARE THEY ALL OF WHAT WE REMEMBER?  WHAT PLEASANT RECOLLECTIONS OF CHILDHOOD HAVE YOU?  WOULD YOU SAY THAT ON THE WHOLE YOU WERE HAPPY?

  MYSELF:  I DON'T KNOW ABOUT "ON THE WHOLE."  SENSATIONS IN CHILDHOOD ARE SO INTENSE I CAN'T PRETEND TO RECALL THEIR DURATION.  WHEN I WAS HAPPY I WAS WARMLY, BRIMMINGLY HAPPY, AND WHEN I WAS UNHAPPY I WAS IN HELL.

  DR VON HALLER:  WHAT IS THE EARLIEST RECOLLECTION YOU CAN HONESTLY VOUCH FOR?

  MYSELF:  OH, THAT'S EASY.  I WAS STANDING IN MY GRANDMOTHER'S GARDEN, IN WARM SUNLIGHT, LOOKING INTO A DEEP RED PEONY.  AS I RECALL IT, I WASN'T MUCH TALLER THAN THE PEONY.  IT WAS A MOMENT OF VERY GREAT - PERHAPS I SHOULDN'T SAY HAPPINESS, BECAUSE IT WAS REALLY AN INTENSE ABSORPTION.  THE WHOLE WORLD, THE WHOLE OF LIFE, AND I MYSELF, BECAME A WARM, RICH PEONY-RED.

  DR VON HALLER:  HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO RECAPTURE THAT FEELING?

  MYSELF:  NEVER.



  - ROBERTSON DAVIES, THE MANTICORE, (1972)

COMING SOON / 

I'VE HAD MY HEAD IN PLACES OTHER THAN PICTURE-TAKING RECENTLY.

 MORE OF THIS TO FOLLOW.

SAPPHO 31 /

TO ME HE SEEMS LIKE A GOD

 AS HE SITS FACING YOU AND

 HEARS YOU NEAR AS YOU SPEAK

 SOFTLY AND LAUGH

 IN A SWEET ECHO THAT JOLTS

 THE HEART IN MY RIBS.  FOR NOW

 AS I LOOK AT YOU MY VOICE

 IS EMPTY AND

 CAN SAY NOTHING AS MY TONGUE

 CRACKS AND A SLENDER FIRE IS QUICK

 UNDER MY SKIN.  MY EYES ARE DEAD

 TO LIGHT, MY EARS

 POUND, AND A SWEAT POURS OVER ME.

  I CONVULSE, GREENER THAN GRASS,

 AND FEEL MY MIND SLIP AS I

 GO CLOSE TO DEATH,

 YET, BEING POOR, MUST SUFFER

 EVERYTHING.

- SAPPHO, 'UNTITLED (FRAGMENT 31)', c.600 BCE.

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(FROM A SECOND VERSION OF A TRANSLATION

 BY WILLIS BARNSTONE, 1988.)

CHARLES AUGUST MENIN /

 'SAPPHO’, (1877)

"'...HE LITTLE THINKS OF THE MARVELOUS PART HE HAS TO PLAY IN THE FUTURE.'

 'SO HE IS TO GO WITH US AS FAR AS -'

 'AS FAR AS THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH, AXEL.'"


 - JULES VERNE, 'JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH', 1864.

GENEVIÈVE BJARGARDÓTTIR /
 ''þoka (MIST), SUMMER IN THE EAST FJORDS', (2010)


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OUR TROUBLES AND OUR TRIALS HERE
 WILL ONLY MAKE US RICHER THERE
 WHEN WE ARRIVE AT HOME,
 WHEN WE ARRIVE AT HOME.


- ANON, 'GARDEN HYMN', FROM A SUPPLEMENT TO THE 'KENTUCKY HARMONY', 1826.

SOL-FA -> SOLFÈGE /
 SINGERS OF THE 98th HENAGAR UNION SACRED HARP CONVENTION AND PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE.