- Track: 4
- Artist: aE3
- Album: Wide Open Spaces
- Year: 2009
- Title: Discovery (Homage to H.Hesse)
- Length: 3:42 minutes (4.94 MB)
- Format: Stereo 44kHz 186Kbps (VBR)
I have had an audio project on the back-burner for several years.
The title of the project is Wide Open Spaces.
The words are from Hermann Hesse's book "Demian" which was published in 1919.
Here they are in their entirety (as sometimes my voice isn't very clear):
--- I then made the comforting discovery that I could regulate my rise and fall by holding or releasing my breath.
Pistonius explained it to me ; "The impetus which enables you to fly is our great human possession. Everybody has it. It is the feeling of the connection one has with every source of power. But it is frightening ! That is why the majority of people are so willing to renounce any idea of flying and prefer to stroll quietly along the pavement and obey the law. But you are not one of these. You have higher aspirations as behoves a man of spirit. And look ! You discover the miracle that you are gradually winning the mastery and that to the great common power which sweeps you upward is added a fine, subtle power, a machine, a means of stearing a course. And it's wonderful. Without it you would drift about in the air powerless. This is what madmen do. They have deeper presentiments than the people on the pavement but they have no key and no help to steer with and they whirl round in the abyss. But you, Sinclair, you do things ! And how is that ? You don't really know, do you ?
You do it with a new organ, a breath-controller. That shows you how impersonal your soul is down in its depths. It is unaware of this regulator ! But it isn't new. It is a loan. It has existed for thousands of years. It is the fishes' sense of equilibrium, the air-bladder.And in no point of fact there are a few strange and primeval genera of fish in which the air-bladder is a kind of lung and can function in that capacity.
It closely resembles the lung you use for flying in your dreams !"
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