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| 1909 - 1969 |
Sinfonia No. 3
Cello Concerto No. 1
String Quartet No. 4
Friday, June 7, 2013
Thursday, June 6, 2013
what dreams may come
Jessica Duchen is a rather neat person. She also has an aesthetic sensibility. That unusual condition can sometimes cause a special dream to happen.
In fact, I can imagine an unwritten Jessica character appearing in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. At the Davos sanitarium, she is sitting for breakfast at one of the dining hall tables. Hans Castorp, at another table, overhears her telling about last night's dream:
"Has anyone seen my dream aria?"
about SWANN'S WAY
"Surrender to Proust"
This:
"Knowing that you are reading a work of genius, it is difficult to recognize that Swann’s Way is strange."
And this:
"Proust goes on to explain that, 'Swann had regarded musical motifs as actual ideas, of another world, of another order, ideas veiled in shadows, unknown, impenetrable by the human mind, which none the less were perfectly distinct one from another, unequal among themselves in value and in significance.'”
Also:
"For this reason, reading Swann’s Way can feel like falling into a dream. Pages will drift by light as ether. You sometimes forget you are reading. You get lost in the stories, the memories."
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