Collage-("And so they reject the word")

It was as though my whole experience were some fragile crystal chandelier
or something
and somebody took a hammer and smashed it. (Jerry Garcia)

A language based on malleable,
not pre-fabricated, material.
The absence of a residual document.

It is important to stress that the following are recollections of what happened.
Objectivity will, I am sure, be quite beyond me,
but whenever possible
I shall quote other views and opinions.

(The effect is of slackness, blandness.
What it seems to demand
above all else is
lip-service.)

It has excited a profusion of sociological,
philosophical,
religious,
and political explanations,
but I shall have to leave those to authors with the appropriate appetite and ability.

Very anti-duende, I should think.
Which might explain everything; but this is now a pretty unfashionable view.

And so they reject the word,
and show a reluctance to be identified by what in some quarters has become
almost a term of abuse.
Virtuosic distortions of natural bodily functions
unequalled since the days of Le Petomane.
These are strange ambitions in a music which once so clearly demonstrated
the empty fatuity of all these things.

(He's allowed to handle it but then only under the strictest supervision.)

Or
that is how it seemed to me.
But my impression is that there is no shortage of exceptions.

It is easy enough to play silence but difficult
to get it to sound
right.

He didn't seem particularly worried about the possibility.