The title comes from the first Quartet by T.S. Eliot.
The sounds have been offered by the island of Ithaca, the composition "Immortality" by Maria G., and my (Yamaha C108-PE) piano.

Dedicated to my soul-friend Maria Gminor (◡‿◡*)

*homemixed

•adding:
8.11.2020
⁣⠀Is there such a thing as a distraction? As I am walking, moving, I look. My mind goes here and there, to different points, and if they move me, if they take me away from the main road, from the self-centre, I call them distractions. But when there is no self-centre, no straight path along which I am walking there is no distraction.⠀
⠀This is very important to understand. If you understand this one thing very clearly, you will find that all effort to concentrate, with the conflict it creates, completely disappears; and then there is no distraction. Looking at the sky, seeing the face of a lovely child, hearing the stream rushing by, and the terrific noise of a jet passing overhead; observing people, the politicians, the priests, listening to your own mind and heart, being aware of your own demands, your own despairs - in none of these, from the looking at the sky to the looking at yourself, is there distraction. It is all part of one whole, and that one whole can be seen only when there is complete attention. Complete attention is denied when you admit distraction.⠀
⠀When there is complete attention, you never regard anything as a distraction. Your sex, your jealousy, your anxiety, your fear, your love, your passion - nothing you look at is any distraction at all. Everything is within the flame of attention, and therefore there is nothing fragmentary. The politician, the priest, the ritual - they are all part of the whole. In the positive movement of the mind, there is distraction, there is fragmentation; but when the mind has no movement and is therefore - if I may use the word - negative, there is no fragmentation of life. Then the cloud in the sky, the dust on the road, the flower by the wayside, and the whisper of your own thought, are all part of the whole. But that wholeness can be understood only when the positive movement of the mind has completely ceased.

—Krishnamurti
The Collected Works Vol XIV

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24.12.2024

Distracted from Distraction by Distraction

H Μνημειώδης Απόδραση του Οράτιου Σουώρτς ● Pork Ltd. ● του έκτορα
www.goodreads.com/book/show/33819942
youtu.be/q341_pqNR_A

απόσπασμα σε ελεύθερη απόδοση
συνθετικό δίδυμο Maria G. & Eva K.
πιάνο Eva K.

Horatio's Hop

[..] et dont l’éphémère présent à l’ambition de la durée.

photo credits: Wrong Anastasia

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• η φωνή (και λίγη ακουστική κιθάρα‽) της Μαρκέλλας, τα πλήκτρα της Εύας, και στο (εσωτερικό) παράθυρο η Χαρά •

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