reluctances

Updated: June 14, 2025

"In this step from the state of rest into movement and return, the coming again to rest; on what circuitous ways, with what reluctances and hesitations; whether quick and decisively or gradually and unnoticed therein consists the nature of melody."<1> <1> Weinmann, op. cit.

Ethel Dench Puffer Howes - The Psychology of Beauty