I’ve always thought of music as a deeply personal adventure: everyone’s tastes differ; everyone has deeply hidden guilty pleasures *coughjustintimberlakecough*; and everyone has strong emotional attachments to certain songs. Music evokes many, many memories for me, particularly about novels I was reading at the same time as I was deeply listening to a particular band or album.

“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
      Edith Sitwell (1887 – 1964)
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