Day Trips for Nihilists

On the River as God or Gods


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Running order of the 'culturescape':


  • Prelude from Das Rhinegold by Richard Wagner (Rudolfe Kempe, Bayreuth performance)
  • opening of TS Eliot's 'The Dry Salvages' from Four Quartets
  • Charley Patton, High Water Everywhere Part 1
  • Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil excerpt
  • Robert Petway, Catfish Blues
  • Pike, Ted Hughes (read by the poet)
  • Má Vlast, 2. Vltava, ou La Moldau, Smetana (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Vaclav Talich, 1954)
  • Various field recordings of rivers large and small from freesound.org


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Day Trips for NihilistsBy Neil Fitzgerald