...here was one

Performers: United Instruments of Lucilin

 

The title of the work, ...here was one is a fragment from a quotation from Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Here is the complete quotation below:

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What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question;
one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come.
The great revelation perhaps never did come.

Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck

unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

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Woolf’s novels are famous for how she constructs the novel using stream-of- consciousness and the various ways time passes in her non-linear storylines. Nevertheless, beyond the techniques mentioned above, the core, or perpetual pursuit behind this novel is the profound question she asks all the time:” What is the meaning of life?” for us as readers and for Virginia Woolf herself.

 

Transcendence is veiled and shimmering beneath this music. Sometimes it reveals, sometimes it dives into the different flows of time passing. However, it is never gone; it exists perpetually. It is fused into the fibers of memory and the present and woven into the fabrics of the future.

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