A gamble against oblivion, a wager against silence

“I write to discover what I know.” 
-Flannery O'Connor

Image: Found
Title: George Steiner, “The Uncommon Reader"

Symphonies without movements, operas without words

We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind.

-George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life

Image: The Musarithmetic Ark, attributed to Athanasius Kircher, 1650

Title thanks to: Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century