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'Titus applauded. "Here, here! A philosopher is born!"
And we went for beer and pizza.'

"Of course there's nothing mystical about an empty 7-Up bottle unless you're familiar with the symbology of 7's, have a Buddhist conception of emptiness, or a Taoist conception of Up, which Bill Bob didn't."

The way Berry writes for a female character is incredible... if I didn't know who wrote this book I'd say it was written by a woman! Hannah's voice is marvelously real-- although Berry's ideas do sometimes peek their little heads through her words.

"Bach [had] the answer to Gottfried Scheibel's rhetorical observation: "I do not know why operas alone should have the privilege of squeezing tears from us; why is that not true in the church?" With never an opera to his name, Bach [was] the one to work his way towards uncovering and releasing a dramatic potency in music beyond the reach of any of his peers...."