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title track "Skunk In The Room", was
more or less a giveaway. Usually I make up my own
titles, but this one was actually a quote. Or even
better, a name.
A name given to me by someone who
could not appreciate my writings about a
commercial mixture of caricatures of Reggae,
Rasta and  Christianity, called Christafarianism.
And so this person referred to me as a
"skunk" in order to express the fact
that I was making her kind of feeling
uncomfortable with my words.
Those who checked my Word as well as my Sound,
would already have the key. They would know, that
I had just published a book about this all, and
that I
was in the middle of writing a second book about
the same subject. They would know all about the
"Skunk In the Room", too.
In the same time, "Skunk In The Room"
could very well be interpreted as "having a
little bit of marijuana in the house". The
music would definitely suggest such a thing, and
so did the picture that came with the track. If
you wouldn't know about the things that I was
writing about in that time, you would not have
known what it was all about.
Without the Word, you would have heard
the Sound, but you would not have
discovered the "Power". And even
with both Word and Sound, it's still
not so that the Power will arrive
automatically. For many will not even recognize
the Power, when they are confronted with
the Word and the Sound.
Which leads me to the title of this
column.
I admit and confess, it's not really the
accurate rendering of the phrase. For it is not
the Word and Sound that makes the Power,
even though it is often seen as such.
The phrase goes: Word, Sound and Power!
These three things go together. Threegether,
you could say.
For in order to check out my work as an artist,
it's not even enough to check out the Word
and the Sound only. The Word and the
Sound mean nothing, when they do not have
the Power.
Just what is that Power, then? Surely
it's not the energy needed to run a computer in
order to upload material to the Internet. Surely
it's not the Power as in
"authority" either, even though it is.
But it's not my Power at all.
I don't have any Power. I could know
everything there is to know, I could make Reggae
Music and write in-depth articles about a wide
variety of subjects and I could even be right in
the things I say, but there would be no Power
at all.
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