hi!!! eeee first post!!!! not sure what to write, so I'll leave you with a quote from Rushdie's Ground Beneath Her Feet. In case you're not a U2 fan, you should know, its also an incredibly sexy song.
'Why do we care about singers? Wherin lies the power of songs? Maybe it derives from the sheer strangeness of there being singing in the world. The notes, the scale, the chord; melodies, harmonies, arragements; symphonies, ragas, chinese operas, jazz, the blues: that such things should exist, that we shoulve have discovered the magical intervals and distances that yeild the poor cluster of notes, all within the span of a human hand, from which we can build our cathedrals of sound, is as alchemical a mystery as mathemtics, or wine, or love. Maybe the birds taught us. Maybe not. Maybe we are just creatues in search of exaltation. We dont have much of it. Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many painful ways deficient. Song turns them into something else. Song shows us a world that is worthy of our yearning, it shows us our selves as they might be, if we were worthy of the world.Five mysteries hold he keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice liften in song. these are the occasions when the bolts of the universe fly open and we are given a glimpse of what is hidden; an eff of the ineffable.'
