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From "Singing The Long Now," Tufts University, February 5, 2017

Warren Senders - Voice
Mimi Rabson, Helen Sherrah-Davies - Violins
Junko Fujiwara - 'Cello

The title of this piece references one famous quote from Isaac Newton, and the text is another equally well-known remark from the great scientist (here altered slightly in the interest of gender equity). The words are set to three different eleven-beat structures in medium, fast, and slow tempi.

“I don’t know what I may seem to the world, but as to myself I seem like a child playing on the seashore / diverting myself, now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell / while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”