"She sat listening the music. It was a symphony of triumph. The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising, and they were rising itself, they were the essence and the form of upwarding motion, they seemed to embody every human act and thought that had ascent as its motive. It was a sunburst of sound, breaking out of hiding and spreading open. It had the freedom of release and the tension of purpose. It swept space clean, and left nothing but the joy of an unobstructed effort."
Ayn Rand beschreibt in Atlas shrugged ein Erlebnis des Musikhörens, und beschreibt damit Wesen und Wirkung von Musik und Kunst überhaupt: das Darstellen des Transzendenten, als die Welt wirklich Bewegenden - der Wirklichkeit. Deren Karteireiter die Gestalten sind, die wir mit unseren Sinnen wahrnehmen.
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