To describe in writing Beethoven's 9th to a completely deaf person so that he would 'hear' it seems indeed impossible. Likewise with explaining the color red to a blind man, or the scent of vanilla to someone who never experienced i — Olivier5
Words will always be saying too much or too little… Oh to be silent! Oh to be a painter!
-- Virginia Woolf — Olivier5
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