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The Violinist Who Solved the Ancient Riddle of How the World Holds Together

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The Violinist Who Solved the Ancient Riddle of How the World Holds Together
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This essay is adapted from Traversal.
She is looking at the staff lines of a strange symphony in blue, her cautious disbelief punctured by a burst of delirious wonderment. Brushes and tubes of paint are scattered about her — paint she has spent years mixing into the perfect shades of blue to color a world’s worth of oceanic depths inside the contours of her enormous maps in the making. But now she is not looking at the blues. She is not looking at the maps. She is looking at the staff line

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