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Love for music is a simple joy of life, but even that can be overwhelming, as Sacks found with Tony Cicoria, a surgeon who survived being struck by lightning only to find himself possessed by an all-consuming, life-disrupting passion for listening to, playing and composing piano music. After grappling with Cicoria's musicophilia for 12 years, Sacks decided to let things be - to acknowledge that some of music's eternal riddles are better left unsolved. "His was a lucky strike," writes Sacks, "and the music, however it had come, was a blessing, a grace - not to be questioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musicophilia: Song of Myself | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

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