ABBA 'The music still goes on' [2 CD] { } ~93.11.22 118

TORTOISE: You mean, if you have been abandoned, you are still alive, just because A-kill-ease has the intention of returning? But when the machine breaks, you are dead? ACHILLES: That would be a very silly way of defining БЂњalivenessБЂ«and БЂњdeadness.БЂ«Certainly such concepts should have nothing to do with the mere intentions of other beings. It would be as silly as saying that a light bulb is БЂњdeadБЂ«if its owner has no intention of turning it on again. Intrinsically, the light bulb is the same as everБЂ”and thatБЂ™s what counts. In my case, what counts is that that book should be kept intact. TORTOISE: You mean, that it should all be there, all at once? Its mere presence there is what guarantees your aliveness? Just as the existence of a playing-record is tantamount to the existence of its music? ACHILLES: A funny image comes into my head. The earth is destroyed, but one record of BachБЂ™s music somehow escapes and goes sailing out into the void of space. Does the music still exist? It would be silly to make the answer depend upon whether it is ever found and played by some humanlike creatureБЂ”wouldnБЂ™t it? To you, Mr ...»