{"id":7086,"date":"2024-04-06T14:01:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T18:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/nick-cave-reads-an-animated-poem-about-black-holes-eternity-and-how-to-bear-our-lives-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2024-04-06T14:01:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T18:01:05","slug":"nick-cave-reads-an-animated-poem-about-black-holes-eternity-and-how-to-bear-our-lives-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/nick-cave-reads-an-animated-poem-about-black-holes-eternity-and-how-to-bear-our-lives-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Cave Reads an Animated Poem about Black Holes, Eternity, and How to Bear Our Lives \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>How, knowing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2024\/02\/16\/endling\/\">even the universe is dying<\/a>, do we bear our lives?<\/p>\n<p>Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we have together on this lonely, perfect planet. <\/p>\n<p>The seventh annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/the-universe-in-verse\/\"><em>Universe in Verse<\/em><\/a> \u2014 a many-hearted labor of love, celebrating the wonder of reality through science and poetry \u2014 occasioned a joyous collaboration with Australian musician and writer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/\">Nick Cave<\/a> and Brazilian artist and filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/danielbruson.com\">Daniel Bruson<\/a> on an animated poem reckoning with this central question of being alive. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"But We Had Music\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-akjypHazAM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>BUT WE HAD MUSIC<\/strong><br \/><em>by Maria Popova<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Right this minute<br \/>across time zones and opinions people are<br \/>making plans<br \/>making meals<br \/>making promises and poems<\/p>\n<p>while<\/p>\n<p>at the center of our galaxy<br \/>a black hole with the mass of four billion suns<br \/>screams its open-mouth kiss<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>Someday it will swallow<br \/>Euclid\u2019s postulates and the <em>Goldberg Variations<\/em>,<br \/>swallow calculus and <em>Leaves of Grass<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I know this.<\/p>\n<p>And still<br \/>when the constellation of starlings<br \/>flickers across the evening sky,<br \/>it is\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0enough<\/p>\n<p>to stand here<br \/>for an irrevocable minute<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0agape with wonder. <\/p>\n<p>It is\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0eternity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At 7PM EST on April 7, tune into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/the-universe-in-verse\/\">the livestream<\/a> of the 2024 <em>Universe in Verse<\/em>, celebrating the science and wonder of eclipses, to hear Nick tell the ecliptic story of marrying the love of his life, alongside a constellation of other dazzling humans bringing to life the science of gravity and relativity, tides and black holes, the formation of the Moon and the chemistry of the Sun, through poems and stories that help us meet reality on its own terms and broaden the terms on which we meet ourselves and each other.<\/p>\n<p>Couple with Daniel Bruson\u2019s breathtaking animation of former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith\u2019s poem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2022\/02\/11\/universe-in-verse-animated-hubble\/\">\u201cMy God, It\u2019s Full of Stars\u201d<\/a> from a previous season of <em>The Universe in Verse<\/em>, then revisit Nick Cave on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2023\/02\/07\/nick-cave-growing-older\/\">the art of growing older<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2022\/12\/29\/nick-cave-helplessness-power\/\">the antidote to our existential helplessness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? 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