The Spell of the Sensuous

From:  The Spell of  the Sensuous

“If, for instance, one comes upon two human friends unexpectedly meeting for the first time in many months, and one chances to hear their initial words of surprise, greeting and pleasure, one may readily notice, if one pays close enough attention, a tonal, melodic layer of communication beneath the explicit denotative meaning of the words – a rippling rise and fall of the voices in a musical duet, rather like two birds singing to each other.”  Abram, pg. 81.