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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent

Source: Prisoner of Love, pt. 1, 1986, r. 1989.
-- Jean Genet, (Dec 19 1910-1986), French dramatist, author; He transformed erotic material into poetic vision, e.g., Our Lady of the Flowers, 1942 which was a cult classic.

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