“The elders say- difficult to prove- that winged creatures also dream. The birds are lovers of heights, always searching out landing spots, never constant here at the foot of the human race. 'It's that they discovered a magical advantage...' they say, 'the sound of silence.' At the foot of the clouds the raindrops come earlier, it's true, and the silence of the sky is something unattainable for those who don't fly- we have never experimented. The dream of the birds was that man of them headed for a land where they experienced a similar magic to that lived by them. In the final analysis, music is the only human sound similar to that of silence.” SoundSilenceMusicLandHumanAdvantageCloudsFlyingBirdsMagicalSearchingAfrican AuthorsFootLanding Spot Book:The Whistler Source: The Whistler
“... after daybreak is when I will already have died. At that moment I will only know of beautiful things: the certainties, the desires. When the sun bathes me, I will be something else: without mirrors, without sadness. I will have passed away, but will have been reborn. I will whistle mellifluous melodies. Discredited but, in the end, light.” LightBeautifulHappinessMusicDeath And DyingAfrican AuthorsAngolan Book:The Whistler Source: The Whistler
“The morning was, therefore, a mixture of a plenitude of densities, from the presence of the placid birds, to the mundane premonition, to the spring of small glisters which accompanied that autumnal rain. The music, in a simple whistle, recreated a new universe with the parish and all the hearts that were witness to it- padre, pigeons, swallows, the world!- were clothed in a new carnivalesque colouring: a celebration from within.” UniverseSoundMusicMorningRainProseCelebrationHeartsAfrican AuthorsSpiritual ExperienceParishWhistleAutumnal Book:The Whistler Source: The Whistler
“The sound circulated like an autonomous being whose tentacles needed to experience a sensitive awareness of the terrain.” SoundMusicWhistlingWhistleTentacle Book:The Whistler Source: The Whistler