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Updated: May 14, 2025

The story of the Thracian lyre soothing the horrors of the underworld, and melting to relentment its gloomy king the story of the shepherd-minstrel's harp chasing the shapeless penumbra of looming insanity from the first Hebrew brow crowned in Jehovah's despite the story of the mighty prophet Elisha, fettered to earth by wrath and scorn till, at his own command, the music swelled, and his enfranchised spirit rose on its viewless wings to behold the veiled Future already woven from the tangled skein of the troubled Present the thousand-fold story of music's magic and mystery, stretches back into the forgotten Past, and onward into the imagined Future.

Joseph Furphy - Such Is Life