Something happened last night.
When I come face to face with something exceptionally beautiful or brilliant
I sometimes laugh out loud, it’s so shockingly good.
My friend Donna calls this holy laughter
and Peter Brook calls it irrational joy.
I’ve felt it with Anders Thomas Jensen’s Adam’s Apples
and the Purple Scene in Titane
and the fourth movement of Mozart’s Gran Partita …
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Bio:
Tanya Tomasch is a Canadian writer, musician, and translator who grew up in Austria and Czechia and now lives in Vancouver (Instagram: margarita.and.the.masters).