Carl Nielsen's 4th Symphony, The Inextinguishable
At the top of the score to his fourth symphony, Carl Nielsen wrote what has come to be his most famous quote: "Music is life, and like it, inextinguishable." As Nielsen's symphony was devoted to the spirit of what is inextinguishable, what he called "the elemental will to live", so is this blog.
I will share items from my explorations in philosophy, my love of music, and my interactions with the world of nature that speak to this elemental will.
PS. Nielsen was Danish, and uudslukkelige is "inextinguishable" in Danish. (Where is the Internet going to be in another ten years, given that all the simple and straightforward website names, email addresses, usernames, etc., are already taken?)
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