“Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable.”
Christian Wolff (1934) American composer
quoted in Aspects of 20th Century Music, ISBN 0130493465
“The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.”
— Ptolemy
Book III, sec. 10
Tetrabiblos
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