I read the biography about Jacqueline DuPre, the cellist, who died at 40-something of MS.
From a talented and musical family, she demanded and received a cello at five. She learned quickly and cried when she couldn't be with her cello.
At seven or so, she suddenly turned to her sister while playing in the garden and said "I will someday be unable to move. But it's all right."
It's like the ability is flowing out of some accessible source and seems almost like being psychic, whatever that is.
And it does seem to have a daemonic component--or at least something odd seems at play: Beethoven goes deaf; DuPre can't hold her bow--and so many young gods (Elvis, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Kennedy) seem devoured by their worshipers. So many die young or go (Michael Jackson) mad.
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Date: 2004-12-30 10:57 am (UTC)From a talented and musical family, she demanded and received a cello at five. She learned quickly and cried when she couldn't be with her cello.
At seven or so, she suddenly turned to her sister while playing in the garden and said "I will someday be unable to move. But it's all right."
It's like the ability is flowing out of some accessible source and seems almost like being psychic, whatever that is.
And it does seem to have a daemonic component--or at least something odd seems at play: Beethoven goes deaf; DuPre can't hold her bow--and so many young gods (Elvis, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Kennedy) seem devoured by their worshipers. So many die young or go (Michael Jackson) mad.