from the glacier

Or perhaps not. Rather it would be better to say that I have been mired in Mozart's 20th Piano Concerto and "sidoku" puzzles. While listening to the first movement of the piece it occurred to me that there is no better example of melancholic division than in this concerto. The orchestra thunders in violently playing in a minor key. The piano responds, sometimes powerfully, sometimes softly; sometimes in mimicry of the theme of the orchestra, sometimes on its own theme. Always, however there is the underlying division between the soloist and the group, the one and the many - and underlying this, is melancholy, or even frustration.

So I guess I got to thinking about it. Angst is much clearer in this piece than in any rock music or pop music or any other modern harmonic medium. This, of course, got me to thinking about angst in man - not in music. The hypothetical syllogism breaks down like this: if angst is better played without words, if emotion is more clearly stated without stating it (all in music) then this should be applied to man. Angst becomes meaningless as long as it is verbalized. Trivial, yes, and it debases the person. As Heidegger put it "Angst is the fear of - ". If it is the fear of the nothing, then it should be spoken - at no time. Otherwise it is just puerile complaining.