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He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.
Michael Ondaatje
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Michael Ondaatje
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 12
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The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He is one of the few composers who can put slapstick and primal emotion alongside each other. He allows you to witness new wonders in the sounds around you by approaching them from a completely new angle. With a third ear maybe.
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To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
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...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.
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