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Wave One: Tempus Tendere / Tarantara / For Atsa

from Thalassaria by Batterhead Down

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part one: Tempus Tendere (ag) “Latin ‘Time’, ‘Stretched tight.’”
part two: Tarantara (ag) “a dancing mania of medieval Europe”
part three: For Atsa (ag)

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“Stand stable here and silent be,
That through the channels of the ear
May wander like a river
The swaying sounds of the sea.”
– W. H Auden, On This Island

“‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘to talk of many things:
of shoes- of ships- and sealing wax-
of cabbages- and kings-
and why the sea is boiling hot-
and whether pigs have wings.’”
– Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass, ch. 5

“When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o’ the sea, that you ever do
Nothing but that; move still, still so
And own no other function.”
– Shakespeare, Winters Tale

“I will make a palace fit for you and me
Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson Song of Travel, XI

“. . . There is rapture on the lonely shore . . .
by the deep sea and music in its roar.”
– Lord Byron Beppo st. 178

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from Thalassaria, released August 28, 1998

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