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Rh He took a notion to write down his own ideas upon music. These, if we may believe him, were something extraordinary; he was inclined to think that he held the key to the mystery of sounds:

Do not take the man for an empty egoist. What is so delightful in him is the sincerity and the childlike enthusiasm of his love of music. He loves it only too well. He is afraid of it:

But he could not help himself: music was the stronger.

He feels music so acutely that it makes him ill at times: