In other words, the listener’s own picture was painted in the shining coulours St Odhran provided. By seeing… — Michael Moorcock
In other words, the listener’s own picture was painted in the shining coulours St Odhran provided. By seeing what they wished, they also saw what he wished them to see. “They are the Orchestra,” he had told me earlier, “and I am merely the Conductor.”
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