Anyway, the movie is called Into Great Silence. It's about a bunch of monks who almost never talk. (Maybe because part of what I do for a living is talk, I'm drawn to the idea of voluntary silence.)
So, that immediately put a musical phrase into my head: "in-to the silence" from one of my top five all-time songwriters, Van Morrison. (If you made me choose a number one, I'd probaly name him.) Of course, I was misremembering the actual lyric, which is "hymns to the silence"
But whatever. Call it kismet, call it serendipity, call it wyrd. I put "into the silence" into Google, and came up with this poem by e. e. cummings.
up into the silence the green
silence with a white earth in it
you will(kiss me)go
out into the morning the young
morning with a warm world in it
(kiss me)you will goon into the sunlight the fine
sunlight with a firm day in it
you will go(kiss me
down into your memory and
a memory and memory
i)kiss me,(will go)
Now I'm not a huge fan of e. e. cummings, but I thought this one was lovely, and I wanted to share it with you.
(I like to think that certain poems/stories/movies are meant for certain people, and sometimes I'm the postman chosen to make the delivery. So I don't know which of you is supposed to have this, but here it is.)
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