“There’s no need to learn guitar when you’re wicked with the mandolin.”
A dead man once claimed - in Latin no less - that music was an exercise in unconscious arithmetic, a counting conducted in the secret mind. More than a hundred years later, a second dead man attempted a parody, a “higher view," declaring that music was in fact an exercise in metaphysics, meant to count out the philosophies of the unconscious. Then another hundred years after that, a third morthomme generously summarized the whole matter: that music was no less immediate than the world itself; that without the world and without the common stock of memories that language evoked, there would be no literature.
But music being detached from the world - there could always be music and not world.
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