A Tale for Tomorrow

someone… even if I often think that everything would be so much simpler if everyone knew it…!”

Now it is Svanil who talks to us: “ In order to form and establish their couple, my parents had to transgress a lot; my mother belonged to a line of itinerant musicians, my father was a committed intellectual; they did not wish another child after my birth and wanted for me to acquire my own independence; both their respective milieus had banished and ostracized them, but their common engagement and their bravery earned them many reliable and precious friendships and a number of people took turns and participated in my education, my apprenticeship of the world, its diversity and its contradictions and so I began my journey, stage by stage, with different masters; from my mother I had already acquired a mastery of breath and voice and from my father the lucidity of mind that keeps questioning and seeking some unconditional certitude; yet, once exposed and left as it were to my own resources, I had this need to find again like the internal sensation of a transcendence, something alike to the energy that moves from centre to centre as my mother had taught me when showing how to move the breath and subtly direct it from one station to another, wedding it to the voice, but in another way; something that acted altogether differently, at once outside and in the very center of all that is, a flow and a flux that is immobile and aware of everything, an invisible current that embraces everything and gives meaning to all; and thus, through it all, from one place to another and one situation to another, this has become my invisible force of

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