"Oh bliss, bliss and heaven. Oh it was georgeousness and georgeosity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship gravity all nonsense now as I slooshed it I knew such pretty pictures."
- From 'A Clockwork Orange' the character Alex De Large, on Beethoven's 9th symphony.
It's sad for me to think that there are people who will never understand this. Above all things in this world I wish only to see this tragic, beautiful experience shared. It is a testament to our divine will and it ascends past morality and the superstition of logicians.
Here is a translated passage of Beethoven's 9th symphony, 4th movement, the text was originally written in german by Friedrich Schiller. The music is what is most significant but perhaps reading this translation will give some people a little insight, as most are bound to this plastic world and way of thinking.
"Joy, Oh ! divine scintillation
Sparkling from Elysium,
With a cheerful animation
Goddess, to thy shrine we come
These our nations once divided
Now your magic spells unite,
Where your wing does beat around them
Brotherhood and love delight
With a kiss bestowed on millions
Embraced in fraternity,
Let us build a world of union
And peace for all humanity"
Also I will add a line from Nietzsche who sums up this point best by saying "We shall have gained much for the science of aesthetics, once we perceive not merely by logical inference, but with the immediate certainty of vision.."
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Dropping a barbell he points to the sky and says "The suns not yellow, It's chicken!"
Last edited by wicked4182; 04-20-2004 at 04:17 AM..
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