Music is very ancient and powerful.
Perhaps our hands developed their dexterity after we learnt
to play music. There are some Palaeolithic
flutes made from pierced long bones.
Anyone who could play music must have attracted multiple sexual partners
very easily and hence any genetic advantage in music playing
So, I imagine myself standing in a darkened place, on a
small, circular platform that gradually rises, and above me is a circular
opening that is brightly lit. As I rise
up into the space above, I start to hear the shouting. I am now on a tiny, round stage in the centre
of an enormous auditorium, surrounded by a quarter of a million people, on many
level all the way round, and they are all shouting.
Then rising up from around me, where a ring of dark space
divided me from the cheering throngs, was a hundred and twenty piece orchestra
that gradually rotated around me, but all I could hear was the cheering. The lights were intense an kaleidoscopic but
the brightest spots were on me.
The world was mine for the taking, and then I pissed my
pants and woke up.
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