by Charles Norman | Jul 15, 2019 | Song of the Day
There is one thing I can say for certain: the older a person gets, the lonelier he becomes. In a sense our lives are nothing more than a series of stages to help us get used to loneliness… If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets. —...
by Charles Norman | Jul 7, 2019 | Song of the Day
Music exists only in the moment of its performance. Music always expresses the immediate in its immediacy. Music, like time, is measured but immeasurable, is composed but indivisible. — Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time....
by Charles Norman | Jul 5, 2019 | Song of the Day
We are going to the moon; that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself. — Anaïs Nin From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a...
by Charles Norman | Jul 4, 2019 | Song of the Day
I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — and wanted to shoot myself… The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the...
by Charles Norman | Jun 25, 2019 | Song of the Day
Dear Eli, I’m in the middle of the ocean. I haven’t left my room in four days. I’ve never been more lonely in my life, and I think I’m in love with Margot… For the past year he had been traveling alone on an ocean liner called the Cote d’Ivoire and had seen both...