The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts
Athletes and musicians practice, and consider small matters of mechanics, precisely so that they do not need to think about them in performance. Like an actor who memorizes lines perfectly, the artist can concentrate on the performance, the feeling, confident that the means, acquired over time by hard work, will be in place.
– Rober Pinsky, Singing School
I remember years ago studying martial arts and zen that we’d practice the mechanics over and over too the point of exhaustion, then we’d get up and start it all again till it disappeared in our minds. There comes a point when as a poet, musician, athlete, etc. one has learned the mechanics so well that they become a part of the basic rhythm of one’s body, and even in the midst of a performance as musicians are want to say it “gets under your fingers”. The idea here is that all…
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