The Song is You (2009) by Arthur Phillips

Author:Arthur Phillips [Phillips, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Arthur Phillips
ISBN: 9781400066469
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009-04-19T23:00:00+00:00

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DESPITE THE MUTUAL DISCLOSURES, the illusion of second-date intimacy, even his role as muse for a song that was winning plaudits, he couldn’t meet her because he wasn’t her equal. Though he dreamt of her, she had no shortage of equally awe-crippled fans. And as a spinning fan, his appeal was near zero: a middle-aged fan is not a prize, any more than a three-year-old fan. The Rolling Stones—senior citizens—could hardly enthuse that a nation of toddlers now complained that they couldn’t get no satisfaction. She would get none herself from meeting him, at least not yet.

She was—as he had once intended to become—a machine: fuel in, art out. She required regular infusions of something rare: feelings she could process in whatever artistic blender she carried within her, to extrude as art. And, he thought with mounting excitement, if longing and anticipation were materials from which she could forge her music, then he could provide her something of value. He could feed her fire; she could sing about fire; he would understand his own fires in turn; she would see in him a man of alluring fire; a chain reaction might ignite, maybe not extinguishing for years, if he didn’t present her with a mere man too soon.

The too-bold eyes in the burka

I’m the one in the mask

The fencer, the cop behind one-way glass

Looking at you, looking at you.

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