Your superpower
I had a conversation with a friend once, in which the question was asked, "If you had a super-power, like a comic book hero, what would it be?" My friend wished to be able to fly, I wished to stop time. It seems things go by so fast that I can never hang onto them, and what time I do have, I often squander. Today, listening to a piece by Nystroem (a Finnish composer) in my car, I realized that's what music does - it seems to stop time. Maybe because it's the only art form that uses time (a piece of music always occurs in a space of time), it has the ability to transcend it.

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