1. 20:35 1st Sep 2010

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    i want to hear this. it is from the scene in an opera (one which kundera talks about in the book i’m reading) where a teacher (he was drunk) sees a sunflower, and “insane with love for a woman, he believes it is she. he falls to his knees and declares his love to the sunflower: ‘anywhere in the world, i’ll go with you. i will hold you in my arms.’”kundera reflects that “the more profound and sincere the teacher’s passion, the more comical it is, and the sadder.”i paused my reading at sadder. i didn’t feel sad for the teacher. rather, i found him kind of hilarious. the scene seemed to me a travesty, certainly no tragedy.kundera explains. “to this point, imagine the sunflower scene without the music: it would be nothing but comical. flatly comical. it is only the music that allows us to see the hidden pain.”ah, i was imagining the scene without music. i can’t look at these notes and know what they sound like. (and tapping it out on the piano didn’t really help. at all.) so now i really, really want to know what hidden pain this music conveys. i want to know what the drunk teacher felt. i want to hear this. oh, man. there is so much art with which i am completely unfamiliar.

    i want to hear this.

    it is from the scene in an opera (one which kundera talks about in the book i’m reading) where a teacher (he was drunk) sees a sunflower, and “insane with love for a woman, he believes it is she. he falls to his knees and declares his love to the sunflower: ‘anywhere in the world, i’ll go with you. i will hold you in my arms.’”
    kundera reflects that “the more profound and sincere the teacher’s passion, the more comical it is, and the sadder.”
    i paused my reading at sadder. i didn’t feel sad for the teacher. rather, i found him kind of hilarious. the scene seemed to me a travesty, certainly no tragedy.
    kundera explains. “to this point, imagine the sunflower scene without the music: it would be nothing but comical. flatly comical. it is only the music that allows us to see the hidden pain.”
    ah, i was imagining the scene without music. i can’t look at these notes and know what they sound like. (and tapping it out on the piano didn’t really help. at all.) so now i really, really want to know what hidden pain this music conveys. i want to know what the drunk teacher felt. i want to hear this.

    oh, man. there is so much art with which i am completely unfamiliar.