On Minor
I've long held a bar-stool theory that one can distinguish not only people, but also places, in fact almost anything, by whether it is major- or minor- key dominant. Here I focus on the minor, which has always felt like my spiritual home...
PEOPLE
Bruce Springsteen
- "last night I read those letters, and they made me feel one hundred years old...", from Stolen Car
Leonard Cohen
- "so, while the light fails, on a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel, history is now and England", from Four Quartets, Little Gidding;
- "death had undone so many...", from The Waste Land
Van Morrison
- "while ecstasy surrounds you...", from Beside You
PLACES
New York
- snow falling quietly on 14th Street in January 1999
HALCYON LINKS
