Ponderosa
Mental illness is, to borrow from James Brown, “Getting
to be a drag! A man can’t do nothing no more.” He wasn’t talking about mental
illness of course. He was too busy being “the hardest working man in show
business.” He was in fact talking about sexual relations, but that discussion
has gown tedious, odious, noxious & generally words ending in ious,
somewhat like IOUs though that’s more likely to confuse. Obstruse then this
journey into Mahler’s 4th Symphony, 3rd Movement. Apparently,
Gustave had a composing studio at the end of his garden, acres from the
domestic doings & tooings. He needed silence to get his groove on. His was
not the concrete jungle groove of James Brown, even if I’m borrowing here from
Bob Marley. “Anyway,” rejoindered Socrates, “…there’s more than one way to skin
a cat!” My year 7s were shocked. Does this guy really have a working with
children check? Sounds a bit loose to me! Mahler & Brown & for that
matter, Marley had different agendas & 3 heads are better than one. Which is
why I listen to each of them simultaneously. Well, not really, the words
overtook me. But that would be something wouldn’t it? Noise in other words. Or
perhaps Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz? What is all of this aid of? Asks the
rationalist. & Immanuel Kant rejoinders “what is all your rationality in
aid of?!” Or in his wink to his cat “It’s getting to be a drag! A man can’t do
nothing no more.”
Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2024.
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