Emil Cioran, hearing Bach for the first time
"Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe can not be
regarded a complete failure”
–E.C.
There are no records
of him ever visiting a church for mass,
so it must have happened
in private: his Paris apartment,
or, earlier, the student winding the handle
of his first gramophone
and finding out, through the crackle,
What Heaven
would be like, if there were one.
But he felt his beliefs thin
under the needle then,
the twin harmonic lines
spelling it out: some evidence of higher
design was legible
in Bach. Until the end,
of God and the Leipziger Kantor
he could never tell for certain
which of the two had composed the other.
"Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe can not be
regarded a complete failure”
–E.C.
There are no records
of him ever visiting a church for mass,
so it must have happened
in private: his Paris apartment,
or, earlier, the student winding the handle
of his first gramophone
and finding out, through the crackle,
What Heaven
would be like, if there were one.
But he felt his beliefs thin
under the needle then,
the twin harmonic lines
spelling it out: some evidence of higher
design was legible
in Bach. Until the end,
of God and the Leipziger Kantor
he could never tell for certain
which of the two had composed the other.