{The Letter and the Spirit [continued (4)]}[2nd March 1988]

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Drama is, I believe, a form of creative Literature, perhaps slightly to the A~ side of G~.

Poetry is the marriage of creative Literature and Music, so I guess on the G~-R~ arc.

Music itself may be at +C†I~ so far as composition is concerned, R~ being for musicians in the sense performers of music: the link of +C and music is emphasised in all the fictions of the [0] series so far written. Music is unique, I think, in that it can be composed on a basis either highly inspirational or highly logical (mathematical) and still remain Music.* It might be possible to describe music as being as near as one may come in this World to Content or Substance without Form: within this World there is obviously some Form to it.

Dance, I speculate, on the basis of [0] (and [1]**?) is at A~, and of course*** is the most corruptible of the Arts (I am not sure that I regard a pornographic film as Drama so much as simply a recording of the sexual act); but there is a link and a consequent ambiguity, manifested in all three books, between R~ (Musicians) and A~ (Dancers). (There is also a link between A~ and S~, where Harmony is found as the Inner Quality; Musical Harmony is of course dependent on mathematical relationships, although (like mathematics?) approachable intuitively.)

I speculate that as the emphasis in a written performance shifts from the written work to the actors themselves, so the location [on the Circles] moves further from G~ (creative literature) through J~ (visual art – stage design etc.) to A~ (dance – there is a tendency for modern productions of, for example, Shakespeare to become part choreographed dance, and for the actors to be gymnasts of an impressive versatility.). (Shakespeare himself, as a poet-dramatist, would tend in the other direction, I suppose.)

*[cf. J.S. Bach]

**[[1] extensively revised and expanded in 2016-2018]

***[Naturally!]

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