Chimes: 2018 Edition (emended Blazevox book pdf)

#26
Through music, words emerged in my consciousness as another thing. There
were musicians who used words and they showed me. I saw that combinations
of words could be molten and that the fires they ignited could be contagious.
They could be a door that one could break through into another reality: a place
hyper-real, full of things that had the palpable reality of what is called real, but
were nonetheless better than real: voices channeled from ether, expounding
heroic worlds of oceanic expansive experience. This was another way of moving
fingers artfully; more subtle and durable, yet so much harder to do because so
stark: mere imitation would get you nowhere. I was on the bottom of another
mountain that would take me where the creek ran effortlessly.
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