I awoke consciously to a new world as a "toddler." It was colorful and interesting, and not without humor! I would descibe it as juicy, plump, the cup runneth over. The love I experienced with my life and parents was ecstatic. We all had a good time.
Yet, as innocence gave way to an experential mode, the truth of both happiness and suffering became an increasing reality. I would say I was disciplined and punished fairly as far as personal boundaries and limits became necessary for socialization.
My parents were very stern but mischevious. I was born in "the love affair" of their relationship. As an example, they introduced me to their old favorite 78 lp's like "Would You like To Swing On a Star?," "carry moonbeams home in a jar, and be better off than you are...are would you rather be a pig, mule (et cetera)!?
Friedrich Nietzche's philosophical essay "A Book For All and None" inspired Richard Strauss' tone poem. The initial fanfare, "Sunrise," became well known at the beginning of Stanley Kubrik's 1968 film, "2001: A Space Odyssey." The question and answer of the unresolved harmonic progression in the film was a term Nietzche wrote about in his essay, a "world riddle," concerning the nature of the universe and the meaning of life. The fanfare does not end with a well-defined tonic note. Thus, it is unfinished, being neither C, the original key, or B (C-G-C-B-F#-B).
The "world riddle" strikes the chord the film intended with the question and answer of Nietzche, which has been examined as an inspiration for all as allegorical meaning, such as the unresolved harmonic progression at the end of "Also Sprach Zarathustra ("Sunrise"). The riddle is intriguing, but very hard to answer, like Bilbo and Gollum testing their wits with each other in "The Lord of the Rings."
The Star-Baby, the astronaut from Earth on the Jupiter mission and the fanfare of "Sunrise" of 2001 suggest the oneness of the spiritual journey through time and space. The psychedelic ascent from death to rebirth hints at the same. A second in time is a lifetime, if not a permanent realization.
