Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

Name: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
Author: Lewis Thomas

by Lewis Thomas

Philosophical meditations on music, human mortality, and atomic consciousness

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Lewis Thomas

Thomas's essays in The Lives of a Cell brought a physician's wonder and a poet's sensibility to cell biology and the philosophy of medicine. He was the most elegant essayist science writing has produced.

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