‘music is what feelings sound like’
26 January, 2008 | 5 comments | Category: book snip, for.the.love.of.words!, musiqa
“He recalled the noisy music at dinner and said to himself “Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.” And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture, concoct sentences, search for formulations and amend them, so in the end no words were precise, their meanings were obliterated, their content lost, they turned into trash, chaff, dust, sand; prowling through his brain, tearing at his head, they were his insomnia, his illness. And what he yearned for at that moment, vaguely but with all his might, was unbounded music, absolute sound, a pleasant and happy all-encompassing, over-powering, window rattling din to engulf, once and for all, the pain, the futility, the vanity of words. Music was the negation of sentences, music was the anti-word! He yearned for one long embrace with Sabrina, yearned never to say another sentence, another word…”
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a short snip from “The unbearable lightness of being” that reminded me of the saying ‘music is what feelings sound like’. Though it was infinitely humorous that the author was using words as descriptors to relay this message…would music have put across his idea as effectively? 
funny… Though it does make you ponder; how much words are open for interpretation. How prone are words to presenting leading connotations when compared to music? How subjective is a word? vs. How subjective is music? Though I may be basking in implications, I believe the answer lies in another question: what are they for, to you?
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