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2003-10-21
Achille-Claude Debussy
B. 8.22.1862 Saint Germain-en-Laye, France / D. 3.25.1918 Paris
Cancer
Marcel Proust, in self-imposed isolation in his cork-lined room when he was writing his novel �Remembrance of Things Past,� bought a subscription to a telephone service called the Theatrophone; over the earphones he repeatedly listened to �Pell�as� transmitted from the stage of the Opera-Comique. �A charming revelation that even tyrannizes me a little,� he wrote. (The Boston Globe, 10.17.03)
At the Opera-Comique
Ding-a-ling-a-ling
Marcel Proust calling!
Monsieur
Pell�as�encore
connect me.
Voil��Atlantis-like,
intervening Paris sinks into a cobweb pond
and there�s the slightest crackling sound
as of countless light bulbs being extinguished at enormous depths
or of young twigs snapping
the sea�the timpani
the shadows and the blade
the sun is done
love�s arms are still
the sea is crying and the forest stands amazed
so sad are they who see the sadness�we
At the pond-lip, in the dark
enormous, solemn, and alone
the white ear drinks.
Consolation Site: Bonne nuit tristesse