Oliver SacksThinkers

Music's effect comes from its ability to conjure up emotion devoid of any context. In music's indeterminacy, there is room for each of us to perceive our own experiences, feel our own emotions, and imagine ourselves in each note.

The Story is demanded and loved by young children, perhaps owing in part to the fact that they can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.