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89 NEW WORLD ORCHESTRA The definite number of notes in the symphony to be played each had a jar, fired clay but in all different shapes, one for each note, a condor, a lizard, a monkey, a mouse, a woman with birds for hair, a man with conch feet; all were blown over a hole in odd spots of their design; different patterns on a fish blew a different tone within the range of fish notes, and the same applied to all the animals. One player to every note made an orchestra. Each song had its particular orchestra and order of breathing that exhaled the note each player blew like an answer to his name in a roll call all going down the list for each note for each jar. Most of the soundings together had other jars as in fish with heron, pig with snakes sorts of grouping which together made a body that spoke its voice on internal meaning. The whole history and literature of the people of the jars was in their playing. When the people suddenly disappeared nobody remembered why all these jars were full of holes and could carry nothing. ...

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