#jejunestardust

[sharonvaneatinsalad]

I think you are really great and I really like your music. I was just wondering, what is it about salad that has you so enamored?

[letterstoelliott]

Dear Elliott,

When I first started listening to your music, you were already gone--but I didn't know that. I borrowed "New Moon" from the library.

I don't know if it bothers you that people released your music after you were gone. But I love "New Moon." I love it so much. So if you are angry with any of your friends for releasing it--please forgive them! There is so much beauty in your voice. But just as I try to wrap my mind around one lovely note, it seems to drift out of existence. And then back in again. There is this word--xibipíío. It comes from an indigenous Amazonian tribe called Pirahã. I read that there is no English translation, but it seems to mean "flickering in and out of existence." I have never been to the Amazon. I have never met the Pirahã people. I have never met you. But when I hear your voice, I think I feel what the first Pirahã person felt when he or she used the word "xibipíío."

It's so strange, but I don't know how else to describe it.  It's so strange and I don't know how to thank you for it.

With love and immense gratitude, Zoë