spirit-sounds

Updated: June 22, 2025

I was mentioning strange spirit-sounds; but why is it that all the real nature-tones of whose origin and causes we can give the most complete account sound to us like the most piercing sorrow, and fill our hearts with the profoundest dread?

E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann - The Serapion Brethren.: Vol. II