{"id":4978,"date":"2023-11-14T06:15:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T10:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/phillip-glass-on-art-science-and-the-most-important-quality-of-a-visionary-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T06:15:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T10:15:18","slug":"phillip-glass-on-art-science-and-the-most-important-quality-of-a-visionary-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/phillip-glass-on-art-science-and-the-most-important-quality-of-a-visionary-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillip Glass on Art, Science, and the Most Important Quality of a Visionary \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Epoch after epoch, we humans have tried to raise ourselves above other animals with distinctions that have turned out false \u2014 consciousness is not ours alone, nor is grief, nor is play. If there is anything singular about us, it is our capacity to be wonder-smitten by the world and to invent languages for channeling that wonder \u2014 the wonder of the inner world, the language for which is art, and the wonder of the outer world, the language of which is science. Binding the two and translating between them is the crowning glory of our consciousness: music.<\/p>\n

How these two languages mirror and inform each other is what Philip Glass<\/strong> explores some lovely passages from his memoir Words Without Music<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

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