The Glass Paperweight (song)
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| Name | The Glass Paperweight (song) | |||
| Album/single | Matt Bellamy x Ilan Eshkeri: George Orwell's 1984 | |||
| Length | 1:45 | |||
| Alternative titles | Exogenesis Part III: Redemption | |||
| First live performance | - | |||
| Latest live performance | - | |||
| Recorded | 2024 | |||
| Writer/composer | Matthew Bellamy | |||
| Producer | Matthew Bellamy | |||
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One of the few songs in the record in which Matt Bellamy is only credited on its composition. It is a beautiful atmospheric piano song with strings, the title is a reference to the Glass Paperweight that Winston finds in the antiques shop, it contains a coral, which fascinates Winston, calling it a "beautiful thing".
As Winston wandered towards the table his eye was caught by a round, smooth thing that gleamed softly in the lamplight, and he picked it up. It was a heavy lump of glass, curved on one side, flat on the other, making almost a hemisphere. There was a peculiar softness, as of rainwater, in both the colour and the texture of the glass. At the heart of it, magnified by the curved surface, there was a strange, pink, convoluted object that recalled a rose or a sea anemone. –What is it?– said Winston, fascinated. –That’s coral, that is,– said the old man. –It must have come from the Indian Ocean. They used to kind of embed it in the glass. That wasn’t made less than a hundred years ago. More, by the look of it.– –It’s a beautiful thing– said Winston. –It is a beautiful thing– said the other appreciatively.
― George Orwell, 1984