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“Attend to your muses.”
“They call to you...
In the songs of the fallen, the risen, the forgotten and the remembered...
The songs of the muses... fill our hearts, fall from the sky, and rise with the stars...
They surround us, infill us, enliven us, and dream to us...
They touch the soul with tenderness, as through gossimer clouds... in the gaze of a friend...
...the light touch of a hand on the shoulder, or the bristling hair on the back of the neck...
Listen, listen. Hear them in the songs of birds as they greet the morning...
In the murmur of green trees, in the whisper of wings over wine dark water, in the shifting sands of the night...
Their songs call to you, in the wind in the tall grasses, in the flapping of sails...
In the crashing of waves, and the crackle of the campfire.
Calling. Reminding...”
“Attend!”
— translated from an ancient text of unknown date, and unclear origins, referred to by later authors as the Golden Record of the Muses, said to have been reconstructed from a palimpsest discovered in the margins of a manuscript copy of the Further Questions of Milinda, a scroll recorded in the Annals of Trebizond as a fragment of an even older, original text, believed to have been rescued from the Museion of the Great Library of Alexandria.