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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. . . .

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.

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