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Kate Chopin: I wonder if...

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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe . . . ?

Source: Mrs. Mobry's Reason, 1900, The Storm, 1974.
-- Kate Chopin, (Feb 8 1851-1904), US author; She was known as an interpreter of New Orleans culture; wrote The Awakening, 1899.


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