t the beginning of the 2022 novel , by Claire-Louise Bennett, I encountered some ideas that resonate in interesting ways with my recent experience of recorded music. The first idea is expressed in the quote above: You take out many books from the library—as many as they’ll allow—and you don’t read any of them all the way through. There’s too much temptation to move from one to the other, “tossing one book down and picking one book up and tossing that to one side and picking up yet another and so on and getting nowhere.… And we went on like that for quite some time didn’t we until we realized that just because we were allowed
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Mar 07, 2023
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