Mixtape

 Audio / Video files of songs mentioned in this story

They were very black and totally foreign; they spoke in their African tongues, and they spoke the French patois; and when they sang, they sang African songs which made the fields exotic and strange, always frightening to me in my mortal life.

Or pecking out the music of Mozart we'd only heard the night before with an infallible ear and a concentration that made her ghostly as she sat there hour after hour discovering the music - the melody, then the bass, and finally bringing it together.

Now I thought of that moment; that fear in me at the very sight of the altar, the sound of the Pange Lingua.