SLEEPING LESSONS FROM THE SYMPHONIC LARGHETTO WITH ANDANTE INTENTIONS


Somewhere in a dorm room, some 20 year old philosophy major  is busy  composing  a 'paper' about Metaphysical Realism' s differentiation from  Conceptualist Anti-Realism  in a self-serious academic study of Richard  Strauss'  Death And Transfiguration, having slept through a performance of it  at Symphony, the night before......rather than looking around the Hall, noting the nodding/snoring Audience.......with heartbeats at 60  per minute..

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