Human, holding both arms out and moving the hands up and down from the wrist as a stretch.
Alien: what are you doing?
Human: I’m stretching my arms because of my instrument.
Alien: ah yes, one of the human noise machines for sound segments. What has it done to cause such “stretching”?
Human: nothing, I just haven’t played up in 6th position much.
Alien: another one of these “positions”; you seem to have a lot of those for many things.
Human: yeah. But look. *picks up violin*. Normally I play here in first position, but some songs require me to go higher and this new piece has me going all the way up here.
They demonstrate by showing their hand first near the bottom of the neck of the instrument, and then over fingerboard closer to the instrument’s middle.
Alien: but why does this require the “stretching”?
Human: well, we can’t naturally play these instruments. Anytime we pick it up we’re training ourselves outside of our regular range of motion. Just to play simple songs I had to build up resistance on my fingertips through callouses or else I could injure myself during the more difficult ones.
Alien: ….
Human: playing up here is the same thing; my arm doesn’t naturally do that so I have to train myself and take regular stretch breaks.
Alien: ….
Human: does that make sense?
Alien: and you would do this to yourself?
Human: yes—
Alien: for the sound segments?
Human: well it’s also fun to learn this stuff. It’s a nice challenge and I enjoy it.
Alien, grabbing the human’s hands and examining them closely as it pokes the callouses on their fingers.
Human: it’s tougher skin I grew so I could play on these thin wires basically. Neat, huh?
Alien: you have tortured your skin for this instrument.
Human: I mean, I wouldn’t call it that—
Alien: and what of the others?
Human: other instruments? Oh uh, I guess; it kinda depends—
Alien: I see.
Human: …. You good?
Alien: I must go. You may resume your “stretching”.
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It seems to me sometimes my blood is bubbling out
As fountains do, in rhythmic sobs; I feel it spout
And lapse; I hear it plainly; it makes a murmuring sound;
But from what wound it wells, so far I have not found.
As blood runs in the lists, round tumbled armored bones,
It soaks the city, islanding the paving-stones;
Everything thirsty leans to lap it, with stretched head;
Trees suck it up; it stains their trunks and branches red.
I turn to wine for respite, I drink, and I drink deep;
(Just for one day, one day, neither to see nor hear!)
Wine only renders sharper the frantic eye and ear.
In terror I cry to love, "Oh, put my mind to sleep!"
But love for me is only a mattress where I shrink
On needles, and my blood is given to whores to drink.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, Flowers of Evil(NY: Harper and Brothers, 1936)
La Fontaine de Sang
Il me semble parfois que mon sang coule à flots,
Ainsi qu'une fontaine aux rythmiques sanglots.
Je l'entends bien qui coule avec un long murmure,
Mais je me tâte en vain pour trouver la blessure.
À travers la cité, comme dans un champ clos,
Il s'en va, transformant les pavés en îlots,
Désaltérant la soif de chaque créature,
Et partout colorant en rouge la nature.
J'ai demandé souvent à des vins captieux
D'endormir pour un jour la terreur qui me mine;
Le vin rend l'oeil plus clair et l'oreille plus fine!
J'ai cherché dans l'amour un sommeil oublieux;
Mais l'amour n'est pour moi qu'un matelas d'aiguilles
Fait pour donner à boire à ces cruelles filles!
— Charles Baudelaire
Sorry these are awful today! I was lost in this incredible harmony that sometimes where is it going. Sam… this can’t have been easy to learn but you sang like a classical singer! Incredible!
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