Hotel Suite Acceptable Seattle Music

Posted by Robert Fripp
14 Nov 2004
Sunday, November 14, 2004

Hotel Suite Acceptable, Seattle.

16.13

Music at 08.50 & for physical movements at 14.00. This was an end to my musical contribution to the weekend.

From the tissue-collaging this morning, led by Karen Stefano: for my Mother…

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One of the participants in the weekend is John, who slept in the dormitory bed next to mine at Sherborne House during 1975-76. John snored very, very loudly and I kept an umbrella at the end of my bed so that, when his snoring was exceptionally loud, I would lift the umbrella and direct a poke – with love! –at my best guess where his body lay, in the noisy dark. This is a story that occasionally is told on Guitar Craft courses, most recently in Mendoza this past October. On one occasion, when his snoring was quadruple forte & sleep for me an impossibility, I directed an exceptionally vigorous umbrella poke towards the source of the noise – with a lot of love! – and this woke him, although he was unaware of the source of his awakening.

I mentioned the Umbrella Of Love story to John, who remains unaware of any of this, and that the story is occasionally related. John says he still snores.

We also mentioned our Italian room buddy. This was the character who farted so loudly in the night that it woke him, perhaps also unaware both of the source of his disturbance & that his nightly exogustation also woke me.

John's memory of myself is getting up early, in addition to everything else that was going on, to learn Greek. This was during the first term and in conjunction with my essence brother Peter & a Church of England priest, on the staff, who was instructing us both, that we might read the Gospels in their Greek form. Peter is now a deacon in the Russian Orthodox Church and living in Cornwall.

The course ended at 16.00.

22.33 Dinner with Anthony, Gordon & Karen at a tasty fish restaurant. We discussed Ontological Music: what might this be? Music & healing: how is this?

Now, final packing.



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