9 August 2007
Is the title a reference to Paul Auster?
You got it: it’s the first novel of Auster’s New York Trilogy.
And also (for me, anyway) it’s a nod to Philip Glass — to whom the arpeggios at 2.18 to 2.49 are a sort of homage…
It is also related with roots of tango…
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