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A distinguished musician once said to me that the effective power and reality of music lay not in the sensory impressions it causes, but rather in the mental ones, not in the sounds that enter the ear but in the thoughts provoked by those sounds. He added that its essential features of time and number are mathematical ones--that is, mental ones.

-- Notebooks Category 21: Mentalism > Chapter 2 : The World As Mental > # 45