# *Salvation Blues* Many people here expect the dead are not really dead. Therefore, they resolve to live as though they were not alive: so softly the minor thirds, so tenderly the major sevenths, while gospel the elderly virgins keep treading like chastity until Franz Liszt, ravager and destroyer of pianos, critiques with a thunderstorm: *Remind us there is something to be dead about. Play like you are alive, even if it is not true.* — [[Rodney Jones]]