EPILOGUE
I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers, and I become the other dreamers.
—Walt Whitman
Some 40 years ago, as I was preparing to go to bed, a thought occurred to me while I was reading a magazine. I didn’t want to get up and write it down, but the thought wouldn’t leave. So I was forced to get up, find a pen, and write it down, which I did in the margin of the magazine. The thought was this:
Voice is the only artistic experience that is both finite and infinite at the same time. It is fallible and fragile, gone in an instant, unseen, only felt—remembered from the past even a long moment ago, anticipated, sensing its future, even as its present is just occurring. It is temporal, visceral, organic—such a complex, simple, ...
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