Extract
The Great and Powerful Osmo
ON THE WORST day of my life, I could find solace in nothing. Locked in a place so dark no sound or taste or touch could glimmer through, I simply sat, dumbly, in utter silence.
A few years later, on the second worst day of my life, I remembered something that might help. I sped to a record store and bought a set of all nine Beethoven symphonies. Then I drove home slowly and lay in the dark, listening to them in sequence until I finally fell asleep, near dawn.Comfort came in part from the music: the way the notes would ascend and fall in ways that felt inevitable and right. The way melodies would be taken up and repeated ...See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
