That relentless self-condensing of a music continually seeking to evaporate. Consummator of the world: as that which falls down in the rain over the earth and upon the waters, falling down carelessly, falling haphazard – rises again out of all things, more invisible, and joyous in its law, and ascends and floats and forms the heavens: so the ascent of our precipitations rose out of you and domed the world about with music…
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~ Text: Rilke’s Notebooks of Malte Laurid Brigge
~ Images: Emmet Gowin - Conner Pass, Ireland; Magdalena, New Mexico; Toutle River Valley
