Oddly for someone who #reads and #writes nigh on incessantly I can’t seem to bear the absence of music. I don’t listen to music when I #mountainbike or #hillwalk, though I appreciate my walking partner’s chat. Without-music isn’t necessarily a silent state. I’d hoped electronic works (from #Arneheim to #Ircam) might help. Now they’ve become ends in themselves! And this is really what it all comes down to. Reading and writing (though perhaps not equivalent) are (very often) ends in themselves.