Quoting (June)

Curtains drawn and dinner cooking, June nights slow, Charles Lloyd on the player. With supreme skill Charles performs the main lines, the quoting remarkable in its unremarked ease. If the wine is good we laugh at the quotes, but truer pleasure is to notice his understated quotes with a smile of recognition. Where words leave off, music begins (Heine) is one way of putting it, a thought given varieties of expression. Sharing is the thing too, as it is said: Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once (Browning). Without music, life would be a blank to me (Austen).