Klarinet Archive - Posting 000859.txt from 2003/02

From: b1rite@-----. Rite)
Subj: Re: [kl] A thread for posts unrelated to the subject header
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:08:02 -0500

...well, here's an example of faulty logic, from a book which I
otherwise endorse:

"I have a lurking suspicion that music may be especially important to
people who are somewhat alienated from the body, because playing an
instrument, singing or simply listening to music puts them in touch with
their physical being in ways unmatched by reading poetry or looking at
beautiful objects."
---Anthony Storr, Music and The Mind

It makes equal sense that music is especially important to those who are
**more** in touch with their physical being.

....but if this is a thread for poetry that summons music:

The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and howled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound!

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