The Hatred of Music by Pascal Quignard

Author:Pascal Quignard
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-05-11T05:00:00+00:00

Since the zoological emergence, three million years separate us from weapon-tools made of stone. Then forty thousand years of prehistory. Finally nine thousand years of history, which is nothing but infinite war. Humans coming out of prehistory, at the very beginning of the Neolithic, tearing time apart to the point where they could plan the year, considered plants, animals, humans as breeders. They sacrificed the first fruits, the firstborn of their herds and of their own kind. They castrated.

Osiris is torn apart and emasculated. The fourteenth piece of his body, nowhere to be found, is his sex. During the Osiris processions, women musicians would sing his hymn in his honor while moving with strings the obscene marionettes of their god. Attis tears off his penis under a pine and splatters the earth with blood. The ritual was accompanied by tambourines, cymbals, flutes, and horns. The hymns of the eunuch priest colleges of Attis were immensely renowned all over the Orient. The musician Marsyas, having picked up the flute thrown away by Athena, was bound to a pine and emasculated, then flayed. The Greeks would go to see his skin at Celaenae, in the historical era, in a cave, at the foot of the citadel. They said that his skin would still quiver, as long as the aulete played his flute well. Orpheus is emasculated and torn apart. Music and the marvelous voice, the domesticated voice, castration are bound together.

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