Echo is that which, by exposing us to modernity’s deep distress, also launches the other beginning of philosophy.
Loss is necessarily partial — The loss of a thing affects us until we have lost it altogether.
Loss is necessary — If we didn't lose anything during life, we would lose life without anything.
Loss is not always bad — There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
Loss is earth-shattering — sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Music is a total excitement and a total discharge of the affects, but even so only the remnant of a much fuller world of expression of the affects, a mere residue of the Dionysian histrionicism.
13 concepts in this pillow book.