By Phil Lesh
Correct in time for the thankful Dead's fortieth anniversary, eccentric bass participant extraordinaire Phil Lesh has added enthusiasts a such a lot welcome reward: his autobiography. there are numerous books available in the market concerning the useless advised from the point of view of roadies, reporters, 3rd get together observers, and lovers. even if, with the exceptions of Jerry Garcia's ramblings in Garcia: A Signpost to New house and Conversations With the useless, Lesh's looking for the Sound is the 1st time a founding member of America's favourite band tells their very own tale of what it used to be like contained in the thankful lifeless. And what a superb, unusual story it is.
Phil Lesh, thought of the main educational of the crowd as a result of his avant-garde classical composition education, literate brain, and fervour for the humanities, determined to jot down his tale himself. Written with out the crutch of a ghostwriter, looking for the Sound should be thought of disjointed in areas, yet total it comes throughout as conversational, intimate, informative, and candid (particularly relating to themes of drug use and death). while you are accustomed to the band and their nuclear family, their heritage, the sixties' musical milestones and affects and the entire band's well-known stories (the Garcia/ Lesh "silent" war of words, being busted on Bourbon road, the Wall of Sound), you can be a bit disgruntled there's not a lot new right here within the approach of content material. although, what's "new" and absolutely pleasing is Phil's hot, positive point of view at the many occasions that contributed to shaping his existence. As defined through Lesh, his life's trip, very like the Dead's track, is "a [series] of habitual topics, transpositions, repetitions, unforeseen advancements, all converging to outline shape that's not unavoidably obvious till it's finishing has come and gone." For the various lovers who loved the end result of his lifestyles pursuit of sonic explorations, looking for the Sound is a welcome boost to their useless library.
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It would also mean disregarding the fact that while, on the one hand, it is only in death and in renouncing linguistic symbolization that the transcendent, overwhelming experience of unity can fi nally and fully be achieved, on the other hand Ovid did, in his poetry, create linguistic fantasies that made alternative realities possible.
He is allowing it to speak out of him” (IL 92). In this act of becoming, the Child shows Ovid a path to “drive out my old self and let the universe in” (IL 96). Ovid’s plan of educating the Child to speak encounters the superstitious skepticism of the villagers who fear his demonic powers. During a fever, in his delirium, the Child utters for the fi rst time a human word; this causes the family of the village’s chief, Ryzak, with whom Ovid and the Child are staying, to fear that he has snatched one of their souls.
In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Tiresias answers Liriope’s question as to whether her son Narcissus would live a long life with the prophetic but obscure reply that he will live, as long as he does not come to know himself (“Si se non noverit”; Met III, line 348, pp. 148–149). Narcissus—whose fate is the agony of unrequited desire that leads him to distraction from the moment he gazes upon himself, and the anguish of unrequitable desire that leads him to destruction from the moment he recognizes himself in the face of the beloved—must be denied self-knowledge if he is to live and be sane.