The density of moths

6 Srpen 1990, Ponděli, Praha

Bought two tapes – Brahm’s Third and Martinů’s Second and Sixth. I wanted to see what kind of sound-worlds they created. Whilst I was at home I listened to Janáček’s Mr Brouček and liked his quirky universe. Listening to the Brahms I thought that it sounded like typical romantic bombast. Why would I listen to this? But I will try and listen to both as deeply as possible. I also have with me Mahler’s Second, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Beethoven’s Es Muss Sein¹, Janacek’s 2^nd String Quartet, some Shostakovich – Violin Sonata, Second Violin Concerto and some Schnittke Viola pieces. Barbora has Mozart’s Requiem, the Best of Baroque, Bach Organ Music. I also have Das Rheingold².

Prague

Here where,

beneath an unimaginable sky,

beneath its angels,

the city,

glistening,

accepts,

corrupts, but is not itself corrupted,

and sings,

with light.

Undated Poem

the heaviness of bees

the lightness of wasps

the density of moths

the possibility of verbal worlds

the worlds of verbal possibility

the verbal possibility of worlds

St Petersburg

Petrograd

Leningrad

1. String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135.

2. All on cassette.