If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. . . .
Source: The Raw and the Cooked, Overture, 1964.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss, (Nov 28 1908-2009), French social anthropologist; Founder of structural anthropology who wrote several books including From Honey to Ashes, 1967.