Books · 1944
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
— Tom ‧ The Glass Menagerie
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An editorial interpretation.
Remembering the past, the speaker says, feels like a scene with a soundtrack: events seem to unfold with music behind them. It suggests memory softens and dramatizes what happened, giving the past a melody it may not have had.
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