The end is nigh..
at least for this novel. The end is always the most difficult and to do it I need to be in exactly the right frame of mind. The right mood and especially the right mental state. And of course as with We Go Down Slowly Rising I need the right music to help with the mood.
I'm probably less than a dozen or so pages from this ending and it all gets a bit hectic from now on in. The end of the first P.I. Wall novel exhausted me; left me sleepless and exhausted for some time afterwards. The music for that final 'scene' was the Cocteau Twins mostly.
So I'm ready to start writing again today and trying to summon up the muses with:
John Taverner - The Protecting Veil (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown)
Arvo Part - Fratres (for string orchestra and percussion) and Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten (Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi)
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black album
There'll possibly be others. I'm already heading for my copy of Gorecki's Third Symphony (original London Sinfonietta version with the sublime Dawn Upshaw singing soprano). As always.
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