Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


Later, when Paula had played sufficient Debussy to equip Terrence and
Aaron for fresh war, Graham talked with her about music for a few
vivid moments. So well did she prove herself aware of the philosophy
of music, that, ere he knew it, he was seduced into voicing his own
pet theory.


"And so," he concluded, "the true psychic factor of music took nearly
three thousand years to impress itself on the Western mind. Debussy
more nearly attains the idea-engendering and suggestive serenity--say
of the time of Pythagoras--than any of his fore-runners--"

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