Dec 8, 2025
If you wanted, more than anything, to make me weep with classical music in the style of Everywhere at the End of Time, then replace the terminal lucidity section with a semi-degraded version of the nocturne from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
There’s a specific recording of that piece that I grew up listening to. It was track one of a collection of lullabies I listened to every night from infancy until I was 12. And we know that in dementia, childhood memories last the longest. So if I heard that piece at the end of “Place in the World Fades Away”, I would bawl like a baby.
I still consider that nocturne to be my favourite piece of music ever composed. My god, it’s devastatingly beautiful.
#dori.txt#everywhere at the end of time#for the record. “and bliss everywhere bliss” (from EaEB) has a vibe that distinctly reminds me of the Mendelssohn.#perhaps that’s why it’s the Caretaker track that destroys me the most. thank you Leyland Kirby#everywhere an empty bliss#the caretaker#place in the world fades away
