The great beauty of art is its absence of certainty

  • Written by: Scott Davie, Deputy Head of School, Senior Lecturer in Piano and Musicology, School of Music, Australian National University
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It can be surprising when things are not what they seem. Take books, for example.

I recently finished The Outsider (aka The Stranger) by Albert Camus. I’m told many people read it at a younger age, and to prove the point I was given it by a nephew who’d discovered it as a teenager.

It’s not a...

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