Death, Where is Thy Victory

[sirbass]

From the liner notes of an album by the pianist Helene Grimaude

Comments

[velvetbreeze]

someone once told me that 'you have to be ready to die before you can be ready to live'...

college admissions essay?

[sirbass]

I hadn't thought of it that way. Perhaps you're right. Personally I think it's possible to work towards an understanding of the concept of infinity, though. To experience the world without beginning, without end, without boundaries in a way that can't be summed up by matter alone. It will be interesting to see how my thinking changes as I age.

[sirbass]

That's a nice thought. I think I will be happy as an old man.

[talkhappytalk]

i think i love this much too much.

i finished a short film recently about a man who's denial for death slowly destroys him and towards the end he comes to terms with it, accepts it, and he dances for the first time -- in color -- the dance of death. it's all trippy, and slow, and soft. and reading this, just reminds me of that, and how sweet and beautiful the illustration/representation of what has forever been considered morbid, can be.

[sirbass]

I am sure that is a fantastic and very beautiful film. I read somewhere that the goal in life is not happiness, but finding meaning in suffering, or something to that effect. I think the things that haunt us - death and loss, for me - can be looked at from all sorts of different angles, some of them quite inspiring.

I'd like to talk with you more. Do you have an email address? You should contact me at sambass@grandecom.net.

[talkhappytalk]

Write to me.

mdurand@ross.org