13. March, 2011 - 'Shield Bug'
Who cares about bugs? Who cares about a single bug? I found a dying bug on my carpet early one morning. Such a simple thing - a bug; an insect; a pest - as nearly meaningless as any living thing can be, yet for all my worth as a human being - the very 'pinnacle of creation' - I had no power to 'fix' the bug. I can fix a pipe organ or a computer or a radio amplifier, but I could not breathe life back into this dying, insignificant nuisance. I laid the bug on the earth of a potted plant so that it might die close to its own element, going away with an oddly pronounced sense of loss.
13. March, 2011 - 'The Power of Why'
In a world that often appears to have gone mad, 'Why?' even when there is no immediate answer forthcoming, remains among the most profound and devastating of all questions. For E.E.
The improvisations on this page were created with the Prospectum sample set of the 1719 Magnuskerk Anloo Organ
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