Try to imagine you are a starling in this murmuration. What is your relationship to the birds around you? What do you sense that directs your flight within this constantly changing form? What might being in murmuration be like? As an observer, what rises within you? Is it Awe? Curiosity? Connection?
How does Leonard Cohen create a correspondence with his voice and body? How do the musicians enter into the correspondence? What atmosphere is created? How does “Hallelujah” become a container of correspondence? How does he correspond with the audience directly, beginning with, “Now people, I’ve been here before. I know this room and I’ve walked this floor. You see, I used to live alone before I knew you.” Who is he speaking to when he says, “There was a time you let me know what’s really going on below, but now you never even show it to me. Do you?”
Why has this song received reverence? What is the experience that it describes?
For correspondence, the English language is meager
Sound nursing sense as correspondence
Cutting for Stone
In this quotation a probationer is a student nurse
“Sound nursing sense is more important than knowledge, for knowledge only enhances it. Sound nursing sense is a quality that cannot be defined. Yet is invaluable when present and noticable when absent.”
“A nurse with knowledge but without sound nursing sense is like a sailor at sea in a seaworthy vessel but without a map, sextant, or compass. Of course, a nurse without book knowledge has not gone to sea at all. The probationer had at least gone to sea, she was sure of that. She would do all that she could to obtain sound nursing sense, or hide the lack of it.”
Novel by Abraham Verghese
Current approaches to inquiry into correspondence are postqualitative, new materialist, and critical posthumanist. If this seems daunting, a good place to start is this book series.
Or step back and explore the website on postqualitative research.