Sinister: a story for the music lovers

[Christa Chaffinch]

I read this last night and thought that you would like it:

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Hear the music.  Listen with all your might, and you needn't clap to
keep Tinker Bell from going into a coma.  The music will restore her
rosy cheeks.  Then seek out the source of the melody.  Look long and
look deep, and somewhere in the murmuring world you will find the
storyteller, there under the cabbage leaves, singing to herself.  Or
is that a she?  Perhaps its a he.  But whichever, or whatever, the
poor thing is crippled.  Can you see that now?  The twisting, the
bending, the awkwrd shape, the milky eye, the humped back, do you now
make it out?  But if you try to join in, to work a duet with the
wonder, the song seases.  When you startle the cricket its symphony
ceases.  Art is not by committee, nor is it by wish-fulfillment.  It
is that which is produced in the hour that stretches, the timeless
time wherein ALL songs are sung.  In the place devoid of electrical
outlets.  And if you try to grasp either the singer or the song, all
you will hold is sparkling dust as fine as the butter the moth leaves
on glass.  How the bee flies, how the lights go on, how the the enigma
enriches and the explanation chills...how the music is made...are not
things we were given to know.  And only the fools who cannot hear the
song ask that the rules be posted.  Hear the music.  And enjoy.  But
do not cry.  Not everyone was intended to reach A above high C.  

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-Harlan Ellison, "Eidolons"

Have a nice day everyone!
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