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"The Musician & the Menagerie"










"If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit,
for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.  
All things are connected.  
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth."
~Chief Seattle of the Suwamish Tribe
letter to President Franklin Pierce


"Playing music is a state of grace, of ecstasy,
It is simply....wonderful."
~Leon Fleisher

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality
will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth
(without caring twopence how often it has been told before)
you will, nine times out of ten,
become original without ever having noticed it."
~C.S. Lewis


Ransom Castlewood's Topgun (Maverick)