JEFFERSON’S JAMMING

JEFFERSON’S JAMMING
A similar paradigm can be seen in 1776 in the hot and humid months of June and July in Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson was charged by John Adams and Ben Franklin to draft the document that would become the Declaration of Independence. Being the most eloquent and congenial member of the continental congress, Jefferson was drafted for the chore despite his protestations. For weeks he labored at night in his second story spartan apartment, without much success. His landlady testified to hearing him pace and right and discard his writing. After days of frustration and the inability to put on paper the ideas of his assignment, he sent a message to his wife Martha in Montecello to send one of his violins to Philadelphia. When the violin arrived, he embarked upon writing, becoming frustrated, playing his violin, and then resuming writing. He continued this system continually and was able to complete the assignment in what must be one of the most important documents of American history. Again, was there a connection between Jefferson’s articulatory skills, and the playing of his violin? The three previous stories all relate to the same instrument, the violin, but the principle that governs this phenomena can be enacted by any instrument or by singing, dancing, reciting poetry. Exactly what is happening?