tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post9190757638230741843..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: In classical music all things must passUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-25740875582159476852013-09-23T13:11:09.575+01:002013-09-23T13:11:09.575+01:00As long as people have access to things of beauty ...As long as people have access to things of beauty (nature, which can be "preserved" in a butterfly preserve, music, which countless people discover for the first time every day, literature, which, it it's worth its salt remains relevant, and art, which springs from every culture) we don't need to to fear. People are obsessed with the finality of life, though. Everybody's life is finite. Expression is infinite.<br /><br />And cats have nine lives.Elaine Finehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-37786474311048135432013-09-20T17:08:45.964+01:002013-09-20T17:08:45.964+01:00William, thanks for that correction. I took my inf...William, thanks for that correction. I took my information on the lifespan of the butterfly from the farm on on L’Isle de Noumourtier, and I fear something was lost in translation. Now corrected....Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-65400435550526100112013-09-20T08:21:14.475+01:002013-09-20T08:21:14.475+01:00'The message is quite clear: we should accept ...'The message is quite clear: we should accept the inevitability of impermanence..'<br /><br />But, but, pli, if there was no will to permanence, no dream of the 'Garden', no idea of a north north of the future, would we even have classical music in the first place? (or art, or stories).<br /><br />Even if there is the inevitability you speak of, surely there is another: the inevitability that men and women will resist the flow of time...'offence must cometh, but woe unto him...'<br /><br />b.billoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716970909272480118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-28315556555825386962013-09-19T15:15:03.782+01:002013-09-19T15:15:03.782+01:00The beauty and evanescence of the butterfly is not...The beauty and evanescence of the butterfly is not in question, but they live (according to http://www.thebutterflysite.com/) on average for a month and for up to 9 months. Hasn't Pliable, as a UK resident, found peacock and tortoiseshell butterflies over-wintering in his house? Sometimes you can hear their wings creaking as they wake up in the spring.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12714315595499860054noreply@blogger.com