audio excerpt:
Arcanum (Ecclesiastes)
by Ezequiel Viñao
Absolute Ensemble
Kristjan Jarvi, conductor
Janet Youngdahl, voice
© 1996-2004 Ezequiel Viñao. All rights reserved.

Solomon saith, THERE IS NO NEW THING UPON THE EARTH.
So that as Plato had an imagination, THAT ALL KNOWLEDGE WAS BUT REMEMBERANCE, so Solomon giveth his sentence, THAT ALL NOVELTY IS BUT OBLIVION. (Bacon, "Of Vicissitude of Things")

As through the entrance of night the world vanishes, but yet does not for a moment cease to exist.
In Diderot we read of "un château immense, au frontispice duquel on lisait: 'Je n'appartiens à personne, et j'appartiens à tout le monde: vous y étiez avant que d'y entrer, vous y serez encore, quand vous en sortirez.'"

Existence IN Time is ontologically nonexistence, unreality: I was always I; that is, all who have ever said I, were just I.

"The rock, His work IS perfect." (Deut. XXXII: 4)

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