"The enchanting cup of life sparkles and spreads" (D. Byron)
Most often, the symbolic meaning of the cup - the human portion - is biblical. This cup is filled by God.
In everyone's life, whether we like it or not, trials come. Change knocks on the door of our lives, and we choose which way to turn.
Cheshire cat, said Alice. - Be so kind, tell me which way to choose?
"It all depends on where you want to go," purred the cat.
(Lewis Carroll. "Alice in Wonderland")
In 1971, Mr. Bryars and a friend were making a documentary film about people living on the street in London. During the filming, the drunkards often sang something - it was a piece of opera, it was some kind of ballad. And one old man, by the way, not drunk at all, sang the religious song "Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet". This moment was not used in the film, so the material went to G. Bryars.
After returning home, Mr. Bryars tried to accompany this singing on the piano and noticed that the first thirteen bars of the melody somehow created a repeating loop. Mr. Bryars decided to fill the entire tape with just this motif (loop) and then start working with the "material" he had prepared in this way, which he recorded in a room full of working people. After leaving the tape playing, he went out to buy coffee. When he returned to the studio, he found the people who were usually loud and noisy had suddenly died. Everyone moved slowly and sluggishly. A few were totally immersed in themselves. A monotonous melody sung by an old man floated softly in the background...
