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Music is the door from this world where Pippa trudges to Calvary alone, no longer able to run with life, to the sacred world where Lucrezia and Cordelia sing with angels and thrive away from the great race in the night no longer “dark and full of terrors”. So, when humankind forgets you are part of it and is complicit in your survival or lack of it, to whom or what do you turn so that you can keep walking towards death and find an end to the journey? What is it that keeps you company on your long, dark, solitary odyssey that your life is to you with a broken brain and a broken heart? The caress and possession of your mind, heart and body by music, the sweetest and darkest music that lets the burning in your muscles dwindle and is the balm to the crushing weight of the world’s dismissal and apathy of you on your shoulders. I am walking but nothing I, or anyone else, can do now will lessen the distance between myself and those ahead of me who might have knelt down and given succour. Someone had already won and I had already come last in that instant. Nobody realised I was no longer in the race. Nobody looked back at me lying in their wake. Others who fall and fail and struggle through life, who cannot keep pace with the run of life, are tugged along by the other runners in the race, those who knew them, loved them – who would miss them – and saw them fall.
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Life, the living and all that encompasses left me behind.
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Now, whether a hurdle tripped me up or I wasn’t fit enough or I ultimately decided I would not run, I got left behind. Somewhere, sometime before my brain and heart broke, I couldn’t keep up with life’s pace and I slowed down, then stopped altogether. The irony is that I am as bad at running as I am at life. To get from A to Z you have to run, whether you choose to run towards death or away from it. It’s a run from the time you’re expelled from a womb to the time when you decay and die. So often I feel that life and living is simply a run. Fictional Daphnes have appeared in Some Like It Hot (Jack Lemmon as a woman), The Jewel in the Crown, Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, and Heroes.In this darkness that you know you cannot fight, Its most famous bearer is Daphne du Maurier, author of such suspense novels as Rebecca. And it's now at its highest point since the 1960s. In fact, Daphne has been in the US Top 1000 for every year but two - 19 - since 1880, the first year the US government recorded baby names. Though we don't see it becoming a Top 100 name in the US, Daphne is obviously finding more widespread acceptance-and for a distinctive, deeply-rooted, attractive girls' name, that's a positive thing. The shrub inspired the popularity of the name in England, where it became part of the British vogue for plant names at the end of the nineteenth century. It is from this myth that the plant genus daphne, which contains the laurel species, gets its name.ĭaphne's origins may be Greek, but it's seen by Americans as quintessentially British-as in the Daphne Moon character on Frasier and the heroine of the new romantic drama Bridgerton. Peneus saved Daphne from Apollo’s romantic obsessions by transforming her into a laurel tree. In Greek mythology, Daphne was the nymph daughter of Peneus, a river god.