"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against
the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better,
but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse
than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking
primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions,
to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley
"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination.
All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.
"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"
Very nice! Technically impressive because all the work took place on the A-string so that the drone could continue uninterrupted on the D-string. I have little knowledge of bowing technique but I do know that’s not easy to do for extended periods of time.
And artistically impressive because the drone (in music theory it’s referred to as a pedal point) served the far-from-monotonous purpose of tying together the modalities of these different cultures. There’s a lesson here.
Thanks for the comment–and possibly instructive allegory drawn ;)