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Philosophical music is a contradiction in terms
Though both elements are necessary for a good life

Philosophy is an aim a striving
Music is decor an ambience
Both offer healing for the already traumatized

Philosophy aims for truth
Music is that condition which all art aims for
The object of an aim
That has little to do with truth

A profound sadness
A substantial grief

Troipeo sbestitu
Thoirea

Is theft okay
Is bile

The meatcutter’s bandsaw
Most of what passes for

These are not validity claims
These are remarks prefatory to
A therapeutic regimen

These are not private concerns
Uninflected by social conditions
These are not whims

These are not instructions for use and care
Ou already know how to use
Nor tenebrous portentions

Among all else
These are predications
Of varying modality

A genetic error manifest
In impressive plumage

When somebody demands an account
You don’t reply What color

Adg bal sogn beliavo
Terzs tomorgan mrogan zer
Tmog bsal ou ropa dzu caer

The arrangement of dissonances
Problem-solving with no stakes
A game of Tetris
The elegant gleanings of orthography
The durable bars of punctuation

Truth heals by cleansing the trauma
Thalian treatment Thalesian

A general theory of decay for example
The entropic potential of stable systems
The cleavage within that makes variation possible
The necessity and indeed fruitfulness of error

Ambience heals by integrating the moods
Yesanmy golden shoe

Thoierea
Alchemical infusion
Insense

The preface must not aim for comprehensiveness
Lest it lapse into dogma
Or amounts to the same
Cliche

Reified
Obtinent
Ulradic senbl

Zair genoi Duf sofo gard devntss
Cur frowl fracoica uiebes

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Musical philosophy on the other hand
Not unprecedented

It
Whatever it is will remain mixed
Clean beautiful not pure

Fiarstoere

The earliest watery paradigm
Arrayed in verse
Ripe for merlodification

The torment
Whatever it is
Contaminated with joy

Oppressive nostalgia
As for the pulverulent prison
Lookforit

A blue metaphor
A distinct retraction

I do apologize
Palutde

Factula balndlua als comoc
Tnedos ins ser!hep enygerm

Can one say
Sensibly and sincerely
Heard melodies are sweet
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But those unheard
Are sweeter

Their us of curce
A muddle corse

Assuming an infinitely and consistently expanding universe
The center must geometrically speaking hold
And one could theoretically carry into silent space
The sounds within

And instead a speculation
As to the the state of the art

Doing or suffering
Neither outside nor inside
Both the active and the contemplative

Since there is after all
After all no bright line

Setting

At spreer ntergay porg
Belms froger mach wiz tamnyion
Tromenon sair/dod Ramoeni
Vagusa

As day falls gently

Alchemical infusion is a completely sensible formulation
Provided that alchemy be regarded as merest metaphor

Into night

“Areyou hearing me

As earth rolls round
The great motion
Indetectable
Though never in doubt

So music
The alchemical infusion
Of philosophy