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"Music of any complexity (and even "Three Blind
Mice" is complex in its way by the time someone has
actually performed it on an instrument with its own
individual timbre and articulation) passes beyond your
conscious mind into the arms of your own private
mathematical genius who dwells in your unconscious
responding to all the inner complexities and
relationships and proportions that we think we know
nothing about.
Some people object to such a view of music, saying
that if you reduce music to mathematics, where does the
emotion come into it? I would say that it's never been
out of it.
The things by which our emotions can be moved - the
shape of a flower or a Grecian urn, the way a baby
grows, the way the wind brushes across your face, the
way clouds move, their shapes, the way light dances on
the water, or daffodils flutter in the breeze, the way in
which the person you love moves their head, the way
their hair follows that movement, the curve described by
the dying fall of the last chord of a piece of music - all
these things can be described by the complex flow of
numbers.
That's not a reduction of it, that's the beauty of it.
Ask Newton.
Ask Einstein.
Ask the poet (Keats) who said that what the
imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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Your Inner European is Dutch!
Open minded and tolerant.You're up for just about anything.
Who's Your Inner European?
Blade Runner, Pulp Fiction, Matrix, Mulholland Drive, Chinatown, American beauty, 2001 A Space Odyssey, 9 1/2 weeks, A Clockwork Orange, Body Heat, Rushmore, La Femme Nikita, The Thin Red Line, The Gods Must Be Crazy, the Royal Tanenbaums, Sideways, Rules of Attraction, Punch Drunk Love, A Fish Called Wanda, Last Tango in Paris
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A scanner darkly, Do androids dream of electric sheep, Ubik, Valis, Flow my tears the policeman said, Asterix and obelix, Hamlet, Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, The little prince, Lolita