Necessary Shadows (George Steiner)

(Blegvad/Partridge)

Orpheus - The Lowdown

Recordings Art Lyrics Chords and Tablature

Recordings

1. Album version.
   Performed by Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge.
   Released on 23 February 2004 on the Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge album Orpheus - The Lowdown in the U.K.

Art

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Lyrics

“Because it carries
the past within it,
language,
unlike mathematics,
draws backward.

This is the meaning of Eurydice.

Because the realness
of his inward being
lies at his back,
the man of words,
the singer,
will turn to the place of
necessary shadows.”

- George Steiner, Condensed from ‘A Future Literacy’, Atlantic Monthly (8/1971), anthologized in More Random Walks in Science, ed. Robert L Weber.
Reprinted by kind permission of Atlantic Monthly Magazine.

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