Personal notes inspired by Anton Bruckner’s Symphonies.

When he lost the person who had taken him to the world, All his senses were saddened by silence. The entire creation, gagged by the mystery of death and the paradox of love, remained silent for him.

​​​​​​​Plutarch, in his life of Solo, remarks that much the greater number of people whose hearts are either by nature or artifice shut to the tender feelings inspired by affection of any kind have been observed to bestow their feelings on objects absolutely unworthy and despicable. This theory can aptly be illustrated and confirmed by the doters on animals who have seldom earned reputation as philanthropes; and though this be but a light subject of speculation, still it affords so many examples that it should not pass unnoticed in a work professing to treat not so much of serious matters as of light matters seriously.