"The Lark Ascending" got played on the radio yesterday..... I asked The Significant Otter if it made her feel happy or sad. She found it very happy and uplifting. But I've always thought of it as a deeply, profoundly sad. ...so ...have a listen and see how you react to it. ............ you don't need to listen to all of it ... it goes on a bit ..... I don't know what Vaughan Williams was intending when he wrote it. I would imagine that he has romanticised the whole business of being a lark. But to me, it epitomises the futility of it all . The lark knows no purpose to its life. It doesn't "know" what it is doing, or why. Larks have been doing it for millennia ..... for what ? So they can carry on doing it for more meaningless millennia ? All it is, when it comes down to it, is a "container" for its genes. And it is, unwittingly, relentlessly, programmed to make sure they're passed on. Just like I wrote a short while ago ..or rather, Bob Dylan did .... ..."are birds free from the chains of the skyway ?" ...and my reply is .... no they're not ! OK ... we've had some music of debatable jollytude/glumlyness ... ..... we've had a bit of thinking about it .... .... what we need now is a picture ... preferably something witty and pithy. ..... even, perhaps, marginally relevant ! ........only 18 years ? They can forget that ! Here's another interesting, but flawed, option .... and here's an individual determined to spread his genes more liberally ..... Well, I hope that's made up for that rather dystopian start .... ........... maybe this will help ...... ... and even that, when it all comes down to it, is totally about making sure your genes get passed on to the the next generation, preferably pleasurably.
And if you don't, you're " genetically dead" ... oh dear !!!!!
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