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WHAT MAKES THINGS MUSICAL?
"THE SUN! " said the Forest. "In the night I am still and voiceless. A / weight of silence lies upon my heart. If you pass through me, the sound / of your own footstep echoes fearfully, like the footfall of a ghost. If / you speak to break the spell, the silence closes in on your words, like / the ocean on a pebble you throw into it. The wind sighs far-off among / the branches, as if he were hushing his breath to listen. If a little / bird chirps uneasily in its nest, it is silenced before you can find / out whence the sound came.