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"the poet would set before us all those things which we feel and imagine in silence" (Yeats, CNP),
{ lang as 10101010, as conceptual, as process }{ parole as concrete utterance, as word(s)} (Stothers)
Nõ - echoing knowledge of rich body of language hovering above the tonal centre
being & time : a bodily time / embodied time and thought / embodied voice and space
sound and thought happening in time ... around us ... through us
"All sounds, all colours, all forms, either because of their preordained energies or because of long association, evoke indefinable and yet precise emotions, or, as I prefer to think, call down among us certain disembodied powers, whose footsteps over our hearts we call emotions"(Yeats in Sekine, XV)
Yeats & Well, Heidegger & House, Eliot & Emotion, Beckett & Body, Zeami & Flower, Sileus & Rose, Kukai & Brush, Artists & Nõ thing ... conduits, mediums, channels, interlocutors, echo locaters, echo / eco logical locaters of kokoric echoes blooming like Roses with questions of why. That's the Sileus thing i ever heard, that's the Kukiest thing i ever heard. But Bunraku15 - is thing music - where a puppet is a thing & Nõ thing imbued with essence, presence - Nõ essence, Nõ presence and Nõ Iki is the Flowers essence - essence of the Rose slowly unfolding in time and space in that place where "Music flows through time"(Meyer, 7) through us where we are ephemeral & stable / wandering & dwelling16 in Heidegger's House.
Monocycle riders sat in the middle of a very large wheel. They leaned to the side to turn corners.
They leaned back to stop. The big wheel turned around them. (Stothers)
"The whole, in fact, does not change place but moves in a circle. The universe turns round and round? Moves around?"(Irigaray, 54). Is this like language? Are we on the wheel of life with all our words circling around us? Are we on the wheel of words with all our lives circling around us? Is this like life?"... could it be that anything that moves in a circle moves in relation to another? In two directions? With a place of attraction. A place of place. Where bodies embrace?" (Irigaray, 55) In meeting in the middle of Nõ essay have we entered "into a tactile relationship"? Have i reached out from my centre to Nõ other, or to your centre, across the tracks to the "caress of crossroads between"?17
on railway tracks: with images of forever ... people's stories on line, on-line, on railway lines
railway lines in colloquial music theory are 2 diagonal lines that serve as a rest / pause in time | // |
therefore a Musical Ma ... | // | // | // | // | // | // | // | // | ... serving as a pause in time