“Music is arguably the most affecting of the arts; intelligible to all people yet untranslatable into any other idiom. To Schopenhauer it was a direct expression of the ‘world will’… and was good when he had guests over.”

—  Derren Brown

TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)

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