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 | | But it is also true that Mozart's Muzak includes moments that ravish the senses and pierce the heart private addresses, perhaps, to the dinner guest who has become bored with the pompous ass on the left and the airhead on the right, and who has started paying attention to the band. |
 | | The patterns made by these life-threads, by this play of backwards and forwards, of being here and in the past and in the future all at the same time, are in themselves fascinating, beautiful, and, to those sensible to their speech, moving. |
 | | We can be touched, stirred, moved by the beautiful tone of a voice or an instrument, by the insistence of one rhythm or the teasing suppleness of another, by the tension in a leap, by a stimulus as simple as the sound of a full orchestra at flood-tide or by a barely audible hush. |
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