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it was

now that
I realised
why I felt so
happy.

For about
an hour a
single chord
had been
resounding
around me;

such a sweet
and pure tone
that I felt
as if I were
swimming in
a bath of cool
liquid.

I listened
attentively
and

discovered
that four

simple notes
were being

repeated.
I know

something of
music, having
studied
pianoforte in
my youth.
I was thus

able to
establish
at once the
order of the
four notes.
G

A
A
G sharp.

At this

moment we
landed.

The Music I

had heard
before.

This time it

was not the


sequence of
Fa re mi do

,but a

different deep
rhythm with
a rising final
inflection
which I
cannot

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