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Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks knows all this - and too much else besides, to attempt any glib definitions. On the first page of Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, he writes that music "has no concepts, makes no propositions; it lacks images, symbols, the stuff of language. It has...
"Tell the truth," V.S. Naipaul advised the young Paul Theroux in the mid-1960s, when the latter asked him how to get started as a novelist. As contradictory as that might seem - novelists make things up for a living, after all - anyone who has written fiction, or even tried to...
Sensibly enough, the tales that comprise the “Metamorphoses” revolve around scenes of transformation. Onstage, the big changes all take place in the pool, which accommodates many more subtle modulations of its own with impressive flexibility. One minute it’s a stormy ocean, the...
But even though the cast’s acting and O’Reilly’s direction evoke wonder with such ease, Zimmerman’s script sometimes shoots itself in the foot. Ovid’s tales are supplemented with some of Zimmerman’s own commentary...
But he quickly tired of the tales, complaining to his mother that Holmes "takes my mind from better things." So, in 1893, he sent the detective over the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland during a struggle with his underworld nemesis, Professor Moriarty. "Killed Holmes" was all Conan Doyle deigned to scribble...