20050411 (J)
Journal: April 11, 2005
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Joie de Vivre

Euterpe’s Modern Song: Listening to music on “Echoes” on NPR. The music is a good statement of modern humanity, with forlorn hope and beauty interwoven with a deep melancholic despair. The despair is from a lack of founding amid a sea of diversity. “Alone, alone, All All Alone, Alone on a wide wide sea” and from a fear that hope won’t materialize and that beauty will be shown to be illusory, even the beauty of the music itself.