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...like my other characters, is very much his own man. His experiences are quite different than John's, and his beliefs as you will note are markedly at variance with John's. John is an example of somebody whose character was formed outside of politics, as was Corey Grace's, which is very interesting. But otherwise, this fellow isn't John McCain any more than he's Bill Cohen [former Republican secretary of defense under Clinton], although he has some similarities to Bill as well...
...Your main character, Corey Grace, is a former POW who's a Republican Senator and a presidential candidate. That sounds familiar...
...like my other characters, is very much his own man. His experiences are quite different than John's, and his beliefs as you will note are markedly at variance with John's. John is an example of somebody whose character was formed outside of politics, as was Corey Grace's, which is very interesting. But otherwise, this fellow isn't John McCain any more than he's Bill Cohen [former Republican secretary of defense under Clinton], although he has some similarities to Bill as well...
...Sacks' book who suffer musical hallucinations - a related and not uncommon condition in which imaginary music seems to come from an outside source that can't be turned off - the results are often debilitating. One patient, June B., has been subjected to a short, repeating playlist that includes Amazing Grace, the drinking song from La Traviata and "a really dreary version" of We Three Kings of Orient Are, for over 10 years...
...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...