“But the longer he listened to the “King Lear” fantasia,<\/p>\n
the further he felt from the possibility of forming any definite opinion.<\/p>\n
The musical expression of some emotion seemed perpetually<\/p>\n
on the point of beginning, when it suddenly broke into fragments<\/p>\n
of the expression of other emotions or even into\u00a0unrelated sounds which,<\/p>\n
elaborate though they were, were only connected by the whim of the composer.<\/p>\n
Even these fragments of musical expression, though some of them were good,<\/p>\n
were unpleasing because they were quite unexpected and unprepared for.<\/p>\n
Mirth, sadness, despair, tenderness, triumph came forth without any cause,<\/p>\n
like the thoughts of a madman. And as in the mind of a madman,<\/p>\n
these emotions vanished just as unexpectedly.”\u00a0\u00a0 Leo Tolstoi.<\/p>\n
Excerpted from “Anna Karenina”.<\/p>\n
Islander.<\/p>\n
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