I got really into this idea of reading lists, thinking it was something that was instilled in me at university
where I thought, I really wanted to read a book, say that I really wanted to read the satanic verses by Sam and Rushdie, someone read that
and you pick it up and you read the introduction and it says, this is loosely based on the story of the Quran, if I have any hope in understanding this book then I'd probably better at least attempt to read the Quran
I didn't go out and buy the Quran which is bigger and then it says in the beginning, this is the third dictation from God via the Archangel Gabriel to mankind, you're like fucking hell, what's the fucking first one then?
which is like the Old Testament, so you've got to get through that, if I want to understand what they're going on about in the service, I'd better read the New Testament perceived by the Old Testament, so you read that
and eventually you're kind of privy to reading Sam and Rushdie and we realise that you've actually none the wiser as to what the hell it's going on about anyway
so I got really into these ideas and I really wanted to read Ulysses by James Choice and I picked it up in this bookshop in the first minute, oh hello guys
the first paragraphs were all about Greek mythology and obviously Ulysses being Odysseus of the Odyssey and I thought it's probably best if I go back and read a bit of the old Greek classics
so I got really into them for a while and read Ovid's Metamorphosis which is a fucking fantastic book about the injustices of the gods which was really cool after the Bible which was righteous
and among all these stories were quite a lot of tales about the nymphs of Greek mythology which I found really interesting characters
maybe none of you will share my interest but I'll explain it anyway, they're quite unexplained as to where they come from or what they're about
they seem to me to sort of symbolise when you go to a woodland or a mountain or you go to some part of nature
and there's some kind of spiritual intangible attachment that you kind of feel to these environments, they kind of symbolise that really in some way
so I got to writing three pieces of music for a flute and guitar dedicated to these unexplained nymphs of Greek mythology, one for the woodland, one for the mountain and one for the water
so I think I'll play for you today the woodland
it's a little bit of a hippie nonsense really
I should probably just get a proper job
for the old medicine
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