Tuesday, April 20, 2004

I wonder if the nature of psychopaths is essentially the opposite experience of those who are enlightened and connect with the lifeforce shaping the universe and connect with thanatos, the destructive nature of the universe, and channel that instead. If there really is something as simple as good and evil, woven through our cosmos, that we explain as either Satan or psychology, but comes down to destruction with abandon or creation with purpose. As much as a Christ or a Buddha is motivated by compassion, the psychopath is motivated to kill, if not outright, like Columbine's Harris, then in the day to day degradation of fellow humans. I think there may be a continuum here that merits further investigation. 6:27:07 PM

I just realized, or felt, the value of music transposition - you learn to hear the music, the relationships of notes on a page applied across any keys, until, eventually, at the virtuouso level, even the note themselves, on the most complex of pieces, are simply short hand for something mastery allows those pianists to read and experience on a level much different than ours. I was just fiddling around with Clementi's Second Sonata in G-major (I think), and transposed it to D-major, and it was amazing, just listening to the notes, feeling the ratios in my fingers rather than finding the keys. It makes me want to play more. It makes me wish my piano were in tune. 12:22:34 AM