Betrayal

  You are betrayed, and you are left with a disaster on your hands, which you must deal with, although you are innocent, while the responsibility is that of others, which they aren’t aware of and neglect in stupid ignorance, as they just do not care. You are embittered by your disappointment and frustration and would fain just leave the […]

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Hubris

  There is no harm in it if it is only love. Wings were made to fly on, and there are no stronger winds than those of love to take you anywhere, as in the air there are no bounds, no limits to your freedom and no end to your expansion. Love, however, is the only thing to render hubris […]

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A Compliment

  Is it wrong of me to be intoxicated merely by the sight of your long hair, the length of which so obviously is just a demonstration of your love in constant growth and warmth of colour and so generously manifested in the open? Once you called me the most sensual of all your lovers, a compliment that made me […]

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Domenico Scarlatti and his Princess

Son of Alessandro Scarlatti of Naples and Palermo, of the same age as Bach and Handel, 1685-1757, the greatest of all cembalists, saved for posterity by a castrato. He was so fond of his dear princess, Barbara of Portugal, that he was happy to remain a prisoner of music in her care throughout his long idyllic life. Her treatment of […]

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