March 2023 Bar Bulletin
Part I, Tablets 1 & 2
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Can you hear the wellspring? The foundations? If the world be illusion, wisdom cannot be gained through sight. Listen.
Forget painting. Forget the written word. Such artifice isolates the individual. Music presents the shortest distance between you and the artist. It melts the barriers between you and your neighbor; between you and the universe. Ask Dionysus. It is only natural, then, that our hero should be a musician.
Enter Conn Silverhorn. The musician-hero. He may be past his prime but still possesses the easily-discerned characteristics of masculine tropes — the caveman’s furry forearms, hulking frame, Bela Lugosi’s blue-black widow’s...