Paul Schütze Songtexte
Twenty-seven degrees, thirty-seven seconds.
Geboren am 01. Mai 1958
Alias
Gruppen
Nine Songs From the Garden of Welcome Lies
Regard: Music by Film (Soundtrack)
- Tiga
- The Dark
- The Walls
- Scourging
- Henry's Plans
- Timeless
- The Past Invented
- Lakes and Plains
- Remaking a World
- A Phantom Barrier
- Untroden Path
- Born by Clouds
- Lives Contained
- In the Absence of Angels
- Frozen Descent
- The Green Cathedral
- Time Arrested
- Within the Floor
- And All for the Moon
- The Company of Geometry
- The Ash Plain
- Shark Sex
Second Site: 27° 37' 35" N 77° 13' 05" E
- First Prologue.
- The dial is only visible by starlight.
- Every day at noon the sun shines through these apertures for the space of about a minute.
- The image of the sun indicates the sun's position as it passes through a hole in the concurve surface.
- There is a brass pointer fitted with sights and pivoted to the centre of the circle by which altitude observations are made.
- The chamber is no longer accessible to visitors.
- Access to any part of the engine is by steps which offer vantage points for various readings.
- Suspended in the hum of history.
- Originally cross wires stretched across each hemisphere, East to West and North to South.
- The ramped stair to the North of the two drums vanishes at thirty-two feet.
- These steps enable the observer to see all aspects of the brass calibration below.
- There is a huge calibrated sundial on each of its sides.
- This chamber is filled with garden tools and broken furniture.
- The mosaic of starlight slips back like the lid of an opening eye.
- This engine is primarily a calculator, though altitudes may be observed using the sighting bar fitted to the back.
- It is inscribed with concentric circles, at the centre of which lies a pointer.
- The calibrated parts are raised on three-foot pillars.
- The pink masonry charges the twilight with a faint sound.
- Another slope with stars for the reading of figures.
- This engine is now only visible in twilight.
- Here is an immense brass circle suspended vertically from stone supports.
- Two hemispheres representing the sphere of heaven comprise the two halves of this engine.
- This wall describes accurately the North/South meridian.
- There are pillars at the centre of each circular wall each open to the sky.
- First Memory.
- The sky has shaped this place.
- Here I find a central iron pole with hooks facing to the North, South, East and West.
- A shadow is cast to the West before noon.
- The shadow can fall in the vacant sector of a drum.
- Days and nights are measured here, and in the measuring seem longer, suspended somehow.
- The whole brass circle can be revolved around its vertical diameter so that altitude observations can be taken of any object at any time.
- A lofty but narrow chamber is contrived in the thickness of the walls and access is gained from a door opening from the masonry platform on which the engine stands.
- A further series of steps is only visible during the vernal equinox.
- Hold the machine in the vertical plane.
- Visible portions of the celestial sphere are represented by this map which has a movable elliptic which pivots at the point representing the pole.
- To move through these structures is to set them in motion.
- The altitude of the body observed is given while observing the vertically hanging bar through the two brass rings.
- A shadow is cast to the East after noon.
- These calibrations are no longer clearly visible.
- Another flight of observation steps and the sense of quiet rotation as I ascend.
- I study the vaults of a shell in which we float.
- Twenty-seven degrees, thirty-seven seconds.
- The roofs of the enclosed drums are implied by shadows.
- The floor and walls are calibrated to read altitude and azimuth.
- These are the cool engines of celestial map-making.
- Here is the Supreme Engine.
- The sun seen through the pair of brass rings is used by the bar to indicate the time from sunrise until sunrise.
- A pointer indicates on three arms: West, North and East.
- Here was the Supreme Engine.
- The engine of amplitude has a function which is no longer known.
- This engine is a rectangular brass plate.
- Second Prologue.
- Once complete engine is formed by two differently incomplete parts which combined provide total reference.
- At one moment in the year the sun shines through a hole in the wall on to a calibrated arc.
- The stone dish is slotted with figures and shadow.
- The positions and altitudes of heavenly bodies maybe gauged with this engine.
- Some steps ascend past markings to a platform.
- The central pillars are five feet three inches in diameter.
- On the East face are inscribed two quadrants of twenty-feet radius.
- The plants will steal this engine when we have gone.
- The shadow is cast North/South at noon by an iron pin.
- A shadow is cast to the East after noon.
- These steps are worn to a ramp and lead nowhere.
- All the lead calibrations are warm to the touch.
- It is only necessary to engrave a scale of the tangents along the rim to obtain a direct reading of the declination.
- Second Memory.
- The lead calibrations are poisonous to the touch.
- This is the North pointer engine.
- The rim of each hemisphere is a horizon divided into degrees and minutes.
- Here is a room to divide the sun like an orange.
- Sighting bars were placed in the slots within the chamber, but none remain now.
- The sound of insects here studs the night like a thousand fizzing stars.
- Access by observers to each engine is gained by an imperfection which differs from one to another.
- These structures are made in receipt of starlight.
- Seven of the eight rings indicate signs.
- Third Memory.
- Fourth Memory.
- I Have Observed And Measured For Seven Years
- I have observed and measured for seven years.
- Fifth Memory.
- There are four of these arcs, two in each chamber.
- These are instruments fuelled by shadow, and engines propelled by the sliding of the skies.
- The stars are ranged across the inner shell of a vast hollow sphere in which hung the earth.
- All the gardens will concur. Here is the mixed engine.
- I will build other gardens, other engines.
- And the light falls on the circular arcs.
- Beneath this circle is an arc of masonry steps for the convenience of observers.
- Threads can be pegged to the centre of each quadrant and semicircle to enable observation.
- Here is a huge vertical right-angled triangle made of stone.
- These arcs are also accessible by numerous flights of stairs.
- We are closer to the sun now.
- On the West face is described a semicircle of nineteen-feet, ten-inch radius.
- Into this chamber no ray of light can find its way except through two small squares high in the South wall.
- The movement of the engines produces a scent.
- Sixth Memory.
- Pointing towards the pole an iron pin is fixed at right angles to the centre of a dial.
- Some of the calibrations are now submerged beneath the ground and cannot be read.
- This room is a lidless drum.
- Seventh Memory.
- Near the bottom of the wall facing the South side of the eastern hemisphere there is a hole.
- There are arcs made of marble which are calibrated with inlaid lead in degrees and minutes.
- I have seen charts sent from Portugal but they are flawed and full of error.
