Joscelyn Godwin Quotes

• In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where music is still used as a magical force, the making of an instrument always involves the sacrifice of a living being. That being's soul then becomes part of the instrument and in the tones that come forth, the 'singing dead,' who are ever present with us, make themselves heard.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Sacrifice, Animal, Soul

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• La lucha de siempre apretando mi hinchado Citroën, absurdamente llamado "Picasso", dentro o fuera de cualquier vieja ciudad italiana. Debería tomarme un año para esto y hacerlo en burro. Al final encontré el camino a la iglesia de la Madonna de San Biagio, un templo cuadrado solitario en la llanura. Fantasía de Sangallo del orden dórico en arenisca color miel, con nichos en forma de concha, rosetones, óculos bajo pesados entablamentos. Cualquier ignorante de la geometría apenas se atrevería a entrar en este santuario del número, la medida y el peso. Tan limpio y crujiente que podría desayunarlo.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Struggle, Italian, Order

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• The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became necessary to invent it. Georges Minois writes with empathy, erudition, and a novelist's sense of buildup and timing, weaving in the parallel story of Europe's courageous freethinkers. In the face of today's social and even legal pressures against criticizing religion, it is good to see an honorable French tradition asserting itself.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Book, Writing, Europe

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