Do you admire the perseverance of the author who wrote the last page, or do you prefer that of the creativity of the music writer to gather up and be able to start a symphony with it's first note ??? :)
to put a mark on a clean sheet of paper can take courage, a leap into the unknown. a belief in what has not yet come into being.
but to fill the blank pages with words...well, i wonder....has each page of the book started out as a blank page? and at the end of the book, is the author leaping into another unknown...wondering, does the story hold together?
i am a painter who began my career as a child coloring outside the lines of my coloring books. i am a writer who started out by composing adventure stories while riding my stick horse around the backyard. as a child, i got in trouble for asking too many questions...i question that.
"the emperor's new clothes" by hans christian andersen
this fairy tale has been a companion to me as i have traveled through my life.
briefly, it is about an emperor who was deceived by two tailors who said they were making a set of clothing out of a "dream" fabric. in reality, they used no fabric at all. to make their scam complete, they announced that only those who were wise enough would be able to see the beautiful clothing. and so, no one, not even the emperor, admitted to being unable to see it.
wearing his new "clothing", the emperor paraded through his kingdom. no one questioned his appearance; no one wished to appear less than wise.
until a small child asked, "why is the emperor not wearing any clothes?"
so it is that i ask, if i question rather than believe i am wise, what will i see?
6 comments:
The last page of a book sounds like the first note of a story you've never heard before...
ahh, a symphony being a story told without words. and a book as a symphony without musical notes....
Your blog is your song and you like that anybody puts a note on it, don't you? That makes some kind of music.
very beautiful. thank you....
Do you admire the perseverance of the author who wrote the last page, or do you prefer that of the creativity of the music writer to gather up and be able to start a symphony with it's first note ??? :)
a very interesting question, s.a......
to put a mark on a clean sheet of paper can take courage, a leap into the unknown. a belief in what has not yet come into being.
but to fill the blank pages with words...well, i wonder....has each page of the book started out as a blank page? and at the end of the book, is the author leaping into another unknown...wondering, does the story hold together?
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