… give me a proper melody that’s been written by one of our great composers any day. A song by Schubert or a nocturne by Chopin, something that will make the hairs of your head stand on end! The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart. The great composers of the past were able to do this, but the musicians of today are satisfied with four notes in a line you can sell on a song-sheet at the street corner.
~ Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
Of music
The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics) 
The Gormenghast Trilogy 
Making Globalization Work 
What Next?: Surviving the Twenty-first Century 
Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Consilience
Cat’s Cradle (Penguin Modern Classics)
Pistache
on Jul 7th, 2009 at 1:09 am
Huh…never knew you read Faulks…
on Jul 7th, 2009 at 9:30 am
I do! I thought I mentioned his Birdsong a number of times before? When you were talking about Human Traces. (All such heavy stuff…
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on Jul 7th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Yes, its still lying on my shelf!