If you can't seem to answer the basic questions of your life, maybe you're just not listening to the answers.
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Charles Ives’ “The Unanswered Question”, like Landslide, can mean anything you want it to mean. When you first hear the call of the horns (around the 1:44 mark), I hear someone posing the basic question of life: what is it, where is the love in it, how am I to live it?
The air around him fills with sound, but he seems deaf – endlessly repeating the question (insistently at 2:47, again at 3:41, and again…) and the sounds flood back in. Are those answers he cannot hear? Is he deaf to them, blind to what is in front of his eyes? Can he see only what he wants to see, hear only what he wants to hear?
Eventually, the world seems to turn on the man – a tight, mocking sound infects the air. If he refuses to know the truth in front of him, if he asks the same question over and over but won’t accept the answer, what good is there in trying to explain? At 4:46 the feeling of contempt bursts out, yet he asks again. Then the ridicule begins. And eventually, the universe is silent. It has given up on him.
My daughter summed it up rather nicely the other day, explaining how her sympathies had migrated over time from the Road Runner (endlessly pursued, always elusive) to Wile E. Coyote – smart, inventive, relentless and hopelessly infatuated with something he will never have.
She thinks he needs to stop seeing what he wants to see, and look at where he really is. Her immortal words: “hey, Wile E. Coyote, time to find another bird, bud!”
meep meep
green runs the game
I’m not walking in
the snow, to the spot where you
thought you saw roses
a leopard stretches
then coils tightly as the spring
the metronome swings
this gold garden claws
up, out of the old dark earth
takes refuge in light
so suddenly, she
stole this hollow patch of soil
blooming little green
a dancer bending
rolls dreamily on the ground
she reaches, up, slow
the air, a liquid
the sky, a stony blind sea
the earth, a white cup
guitars rain soft and
drums splashing, puddles of sound
when my eyes are drowned
sun steals my dreaming
but it don’t matter to me
I see, what I see