Posted on 27/10/07
Music on his mind
MUSICOPHILIATales of Music and the BrainBy Oliver SacksKnopf Canada,381 pages, $34.95Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim Dixon is surely the exception when he complains about being subjected to "some skein of untiring facetiousness by filthy Mozart" and then "some Brahms rubbish," followed by "a violin sonata by some Teutonic bore." Unlucky him, we might think, at least for the Mozart. But that "some" is indicative: These are curses, not philistinism, taking names in vain as the cri de coeur of a man who spends his life being bored by other people, especially his employers.
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