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1 " The sea is not a surface. It is, from top to bottom, an abyss. “If you want to cross the sea, sink. "
― Pascal Quignard , The Hatred of Music
2 " Nothing human has ever mattered to this world. Nothing human has ever excited the interest of rivers or flowers. Everything fades away in the specks of this blurred haze that the fire of the sun has added to the heat of the light. "
3 " Primo Levi laid bare the oldest function assigned to music. Music, he writes, was felt to be a “malediction.” It was a “hypnosis of continuous rhythm that annihilates thought and numbs pain. "
4 " Dance is an image. As painting is a song. Simulacra simulate. A rite repeats a metaphora (a voyage). Moving trucks in modern-day Greece still have the word METAPHORA on their sides. A myth is the danced image of the rite itself, which is expected to attract the world. "
5 " This is the hour of silence. In no way does silence mean lack of sound: it means a state in which the ear is the most alert. "