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A physics student in London starts a doctorate in 1970, his band gets in the way for thirty-seven years, and Plato explains why the guitar was never a detour.
It is 1970. Brian May studies physics in London. He starts a doctorate about space dust. He also plays guitar in a band.
The band is Queen. The music wins. The doctorate stops. He plays for thirty years. It is a joy. But something is not finished.
Plato writes around 375 BC. Music is the best teacher, he says. Rhythm goes deep into a person.
In 2007 he goes back. He finishes the doctorate. Thirty-seven years late. He is proud.
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In about 261 BC an Indian king won a war, counted the dead and stopped, and a line in a very old Buddhist book says what he had understood.
A small lie on Tuesday, three bad nights, and a two-thousand-year-old verse in a waiting room that explains exactly what a tree does to itself.
The train is forty minutes late and Daniel can feel the day turning bad in his head; the first verse of a very old book has something to say about that.