![]() ![]() Watch this video and follow along with the words. However, if I didn’t get the group’s name, surely, I didn’t get the message of the song. Either the Latin or English is hardly a name for a singing group. Now, I had two years of Latin in high school, but I had no idea that their name was Latin for “far from these things,” which doesn’t even make sense in English. One of the interesting items about the group is their name. I have written about a number of my favorite classic musical pieces, but this essay deals with Procol Harum’s A Whiter Sade of Pale. Music is merely another way to talk and express one’s feelings. ![]() I too love music and without it, I wouldn’t be who I am today. The one that instantly captured me emotionally was this one from Nietzsche, “Without music, life would be a mistake…I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.” However, every several pages contain famous people’s famous one-liners. The diary has places that I can jot down pieces of music and comments about them. The one-liner that started my pilgrimage to more fully grasp Nietzsche was found in my friend’s gift to me, A Music Lover’s Diary. In the past couple of months, I have discovered more about Nietzsche than many other famous writers and philosophers of which I have some understanding. If you have read many of my essays in the past several months, you will know that I am indebted to a former colleague of mine reintroducing me to Friedrich Nietzsche. ![]()
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