In the German spirit the matriarchal link with nature rules in the form of the hegemony of music to an extent unknown in any other people. - Hermann Hesse

Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces, And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.

"The things we see," Pistorius said softly, "are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. You can be happy that way. But once you know the other interpretation you no longer have the choice of following the crowd. Sinclair, the majority's path is an easy one, ours is difficult."

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.