I've spent the last few days writing scraps of lyrics onto various pieces of paper and Word documents. Nothing solid, nothing moving. It's frustrating for a writer who writes on command - as if my client has a bell - and to not be able to write on my own command.
I'm moved by Zoe's eyes and I wonder how much she knows. I frankly wonder how smart she is. How much she understands of what is happening to her and around her. I want to know the voices she hears and if she understands all the kisses she's getting. I want to write that down. But for now, silence.
Which, according to the Devil, is bad. The Devil doesn't want us wrapped in silence or Music...instead, just noise. From "The Screwtape Letters" where a senior devil advises a junior devil on how to lead a human to hell:
Music and silence--how I detest them both! How thankful we should be that ever since Our Father entered Hell--though longer ago than humans, reckoning in light years, could express--no square inch of infernal space and no moment of infernal time has been surrendered to either of those abominal forces, but all has been occupied by Noise--Noise, the grand dynamism, the audible expression of all that is exultant, ruthless, and virile--Noise which alone defends us from silly qualms, despairing scruples and impossible desires.
We will make the whole universe a noise in the end. We have already made great strides in this direction as regards the Earth. The melodies and silences of Heaven will be shouted down in the end. But I admit we are not yet loud enough, or anything like it.
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"We will make the whole universe a noise in the end."
ReplyDeletei like this sentiment - it's very sad, but also very profound. the idea of Music being sacred is illustrated beautifully by both c.s. lewis and tolkien in their sub-creations: Aslan and Iluvatar both 'singing' the universe into existence; all of creation a grand symphony, a creative output unrivaled. tolkien, in his Fall narrative, pictures Morgoth adding dissonance to the themes of creation which produces Evil and...
woah, sorry, almost went off on a nerd tangent.
keep writing though. it doesn't have to be beautiful or huge or earthshaking yet. that will come later. but now you need to write down everything you feel and see and hear - now, while it's fresh and immediate.