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Prose written in an intensely musical, rhythmically dense style is inherently difficult for composers to adapt successfully into music.

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writing Prose as thinking: writing well, writing by hand while a model offers to do it, and who will still be able to.

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  1. Alex Ross

    Music critic of The New Yorker since 1996 and author of The Rest Is Noise

    Writers of such concentrated style can pose a danger for composers.

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