SYMPHONIYA DE TOSKA PREVIEW

If we DO survive death in a non-physical form, is there still consciousness? And if there is, do we forget what we were here on Earth as we would forget a dream? Or do we keep our memories?

Or...does everything just sort of...start over?

Was Nietzsche correct in his assumption (the assumption that arguably drove him mad) that there is an Eternal Recurrence that will make us relive everything? I like to think if the Eternal Recurrence is real, that life will be a little bit different every time we live through this. This is what I was trying to convey in SYMPHONIYA DE TOSKA. In WILL, the narrator commits suicide and is reborn. In (...) he does not commit suicide but lives through the infidelity and the sorrows and pains of loneliness. In TO DIE INSIDE A DREAM, he longs for death, but does not do the deed as he goes through the Stages of Mourning (hence, all the "ALONE" poems in the piece). The story ends with him accepting what has happened and laying the White Flowers on the grave of the past. The story was inspired by Nietzsche and my own belief that IF life repeats itself, it may be different with each rebirth. The journey was fun but I am done writing on the subject of what inspired the trilogy.

I'm excited at the idea of them perhaps being published professionally, and I am excited to see what I come up with for the next collection, which I have begun working on. Although the new collection is NOT part of SYMPHONIYA DE TOSKA, it is linked to it in some small way. Here again is the link to the video teaser for the Trilogy, featuring a recital of one of my favorite pieces from (...) or, as I call it, The Untitled Collection.

--Vate C. Carmen.
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