the voiceless downpour of the stars

...they eloquently proceeded with their task, took up again the lost human cause, and pleaded before the indifferent tribunal of stars, now set in a sky on which the shapes of the instruments floated like water signs or fragments of keys, unfinished lyres or swans, an imitory, thoughtless starry commentary on the margin of music.- text by bruno schulz, from spring - sanatorium under the sign of