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David Gosselin's avatar

This is brilliant.

This piece essentially functions like a strophic poem, with a series of successive stanzas which use a constant refrain (something fixed), and then use that as counter-point for the development of variations on the opening theme. It almost reminds me of Bach, his themes and variations. He takes a simple musical theme or idea, and then explores and develops it into an extremely rich, ironical, nuanced, and beautiful composition. The truth is revealed through a masterful use of counterpoint.

This piece above is like a hybrid form of poetic journalism. It uses real fact, but also communicates a higher poetic truth. It's original, polemical, innovative in form, and strives for Truth.

I really admire this model haha.

Thank you!

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Marci Sudlow's avatar

---"Consider The Possibility That This Is Already The Dystopia You Fear"------

No need to consider; I know it is. While people worried that the year Y2K might result in planes crashing, the PNAC (Project for a New American Century) was being quietly put into effect as Bush/Cheney were put quietly into office.

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