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A love song of sorts, for scholarship; for Peter Brown, Frances Yates, Steven Runciman, Elaine Pagels, Kennith Quinn, Nicholas Horsfall, Eduard Fraenkel, Bernard Faure, Robert Thurman, amongst many, many others... I am not a singer, that is clear. Here I had the excellent David Sylvian's voice in mind... something to bear in mind in conjunction with the previous sentence.

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F#13b5/C
It’s still evident
G2/D F Fmaj7 E7#5
that childlike wonderment
C9 F#m
I know I can’t know
Bb7 CaddG
still I seek funding from your grant.

V2
I had a tenuous...
tenable thesis so learned and wise
then an ancient parchment was found
so… well… I can revise.

C1
Am7
There’s footnotes in the clouds of
Gm F7
Academia.
Like footprints in loose sand,
Academe.

V3
I thank great scholars, it’s only
on the shoulders of giants, we gain by degrees
flaws remaining are mine
Punish me more, publish me please

V4
I don’t criticize
a standard to which I couldn’t rise
... still I haunt the stacks
and from the feast of languages, steal scraps.*

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* Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 5, scene 1

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from Leviore Plectro, released March 7, 2024
Jon Ciliberto

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Monumental Folly rather speaks for itself, yes? Monumental Folly also embraces a sheer willingness to leave things rough at the edges and to carry through improvisation from start to an often much-attenuated finish. Also singing, for which I apologize.

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