Art Coming Full Circle

It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that art, especially music, holds a very important role in my wellbeing. This is an idea I’m just beginning to learn how to express to others and display outwardly. Because of this, I have had an ever-growing desire to find those works of art that I can use as examples to show others exactly what it is I’m experiencing.

I recently began reading A Clockwork Orange. Alex, the main character, while being different from me in aspects that are most important to the theme of the book, has one very important thing in common with me: an undying passion for music. Yesterday I read the monologue where he first describes what he feels when listening to a piece of classical music:

Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on my pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovely sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers… And there were devotchkas ripped and creeching against walls and I plunging like a shlaga into them, and indeed when the music, which was one movement only, rose to the top of its big highest tower, then, lying there on my bed with glazzies tight shut and rookers behind my gulliver, I broke and spattered and cried aaaaaaah with the bliss of it. And so the lovely music glided to its glowing close.

I need to take Alex’s example as a lesson in how to express this passion of mine. I’m still learning how to do that, but as I begin to figure it out, you can rest assured that it will show up here.