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“Cecil abandoned one of his regular jobs and with some money he had saved up he spent the winter months studying and composing. In the spring a contract came up for a few days, in a Brooklyn bar, where the experience of that first night repeated itself yet again. While he was returning home by train, the movement, the passage of the immobile stations brought about in him a state conducive to thinking. So he realized that the logic of the whole thing was perfectly clear, and wondered why he hadn’t seen it earlier: in all of the stories which Hollywood had brainwashed him with, there is always a musician who isn’t appreciated at the beginning but is at the end. There was the error: in the passage from failure to success, as if they were point A and point B, connected by a line. In reality failure is infinite, because it is infinitely divisible, which isn’t possible with success.”

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