magic-lantern's

Updated: May 13, 2025

Or all discords have been flung together pell-mell, resolution of them has been deferred perpetually, perhaps even denied altogether, chord of B major has been struck with C major, works have closed upon the leading note or the dominant seventh, symphonies have been composed to be played in the dark, or to be accompanied by a magic-lantern's efforts, operas been produced which are merely carnage and a row and at the end a genius writes a little song, and the world gives the tribute of its breathless silence and its tears.

Robert Smythe Hichens - The Spell of Egypt