Requiem

The sun was setting below the horizon, the heavens stained with a shade of crimson and the twilight moon waning in the distance. A biting gust blew across the town of Dhanushkodi as a storm started to brew. The market was set ablaze by the swarm of mindless people set about on their daily business, the dust being catapulted off the floor by hectic feet and scrambling bodies. Yet Arthur felt strangely complacent, completely at ease amongst the pandemonium of the streets. The doctor said he had…

and keep you company?” “I’ll be fine.” “Sure? Then I’ll be off. Call if things get busy.” “I will.” I wait until she departs and press the play button on the portable player sitting on my desk. The cd whirls to life and the sad musings of Mozart’s Requiem in D minor fill the room. When the phone rings, I stop the music and note the time on the clock. “Meadowlands Suicide Hotline. How can I help?” Choppy static answers. I’ve never hung up on a caller. Not yet. “Meadowlands Suicide Hotline. If you…

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Mozart experienced a time of awesome music profitability and individual recuperating. Some of his most appreciated works - the musical drama The Magic Flute, the last piano concerto in B-level, the Clarinet Concerto in A noteworthy, and the unfinished Requiem to give some examples - were composed amid this time. Mozart could resuscitate quite a bit of his open reputation with rehashed exhibitions of his…

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