La Petite Mort

Okay this post isn't exactly about piano but it is about aesthetic aspirations in general so it qualifies:

The French have a term for orgasm - la petite mort, which means the little death. Wikipedia describes this as "a short period of melancholy or transcendence". There is a forever captured in that one short moment of ecstacy and climax, such that the breakdown is humanizing and haunting. This little death is similar, if one would consider, to the climax experienced in art. Music, film, visual art, drama, literature. All artists aim for this one moment of ecstacy in every one of their works/performances.

I'm not so concerned about the sex; more so about the death. In appreciating a piece of art then, we are all secretly wanting to die. We want to root ourselves to that one moment of ecstatic freedom and forever, and never move nor change. I think it's an interesting perspective (and I'm rather proud of it actually hahaha).

So in considering music then, all performers should have the object of propagating death. To seduce listeners into experiencing that one ecstatic forever that leaves an emptiness within. I won't say I'm not sex-crazed; I am! I want my ecstacy, and I want to die and die and die again. And I want to take as many people as I can down with me.

I'm really interested in this brand of psychology, but it's tragic that there doesn't seem to be much written on the subject. Comments anyone? If anyone does read this in the first place.