"Mute, Impervious World"...Bah, Humbug!

December 22, 2007 at 5:15 AM

“We seem compelled to scrawl our words on the mute, impervious world.” Scott Russell Sanders, Secrets of the Universe, “Signs.”

In the above mentioned essay, Sanders tells of how the human race instinctively communicates even in the silliest ways through words such as our need to place signs upon every known curve of the Earth that we dare to find and claim our own. We can not keep words, expressions, emotions inside; they must come out in some way or form. As a writer, I can understand such an emotion as afore mentioned. Whether the world be mute, deaf as to give an answer, I will still push forward writing and impressing up on all of my mental and physical corners words of feeling as if to remind me that I am alive. As a musician, I cannot agree with the above statement as to even make an analysis. Music is a form of expression is it not! I hear music in the supposed “mute, impervious world” all the time. The wind soaring through the leaves of maple trees in the Fall in upstate New York is the greatest tone poem ever composed. The waves crashing on the Zuma Beach shore in Southern California while dolphins tease the sand with ebullient whimpers of mischief deserves many standing ovations and we would be blessed to receive an encore. For a musician, whether playing in our rooms as a hobby or standing in front of an audience of thousands of people, our expressions never go unheard or unanswered. We add to the life that already existed and invented music before we were granted the opportunity to live on the Earth!

Otherwise, no offense to Scott Sanders, love all his essays, and I think he is a brilliant writer…

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"Mute, Impervious World"...Bah, Humbug!

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