Curtis RobbinsIF I AM AT ALL...obtaining nirvana is like locating silence There have been times of questioning the state of my being. The impropriety of my individuation in the hearing society - conform or else? Should I be different or beg to differ would I not be a part of this whole? Am I by nature so different by the silence it mutters? Is deafness like death so remote yet so imminent? * * * Ludwig von Beethoven....your Beethoven is most unhappy, and at strife with nature and Creator. The latter I have cursed for exposing His creatures to the smallest chance, so that frequently the richest buds are thereby crush and destroyed. Only think that the noblest part of me, my sense of hearing is very weak...[and] that I fear that my hearing will not improve.... a letter written on June 1, 1800, Your temporal bone is gone Grave robbers took it Your temporal bone is gone - |