It should be noted that I don't actually write books; I compose them from the postcards that are mailed to me.
I would have composed them right around the time that I was being so intolerant of my mother, and my father was whaling the unkindness out of me.
I took the words "om namah shivya" and composed them in different ways for him.
I would compose them in my head, come back and write them down, and then go straight out again.
Yet, dotted everywhere Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.
Simonides, Pindar, and Bacchylides all composed them.
Lish composed them, sometimes radically, sometimes delicately — but never mistakenly.
"I didn't compose them knowing the sequences they were intended for; I just gave Mr. Tarantino the music and then Mr. Tarantino was very, very good at actually selecting the pieces of music and putting them in the sequences and editing them in a very brilliant way, as he had done in the past with the other pieces of music I had composed for other films".
I then found a number of songs that had been published in Germany without any music -- there's one such set called "Cabaret Under the Swastika" -- but because the texts were so moving and so significant, I composed settings for them.
"They [those songs from the '60s] just came through me, it wasn't like I was having to compose them.
I composed a string of them, hunting and pecking my way through my apparently limited options.
