Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads]  in it. Or is he “agnostic” only in my company, Christian in the next man’s? / After supper music on Victrola. Three selections from Wagner. He affects me as does no other composer. The effect comes afterwards. It takes me away; I am not normal. Music is to me the most stirring & emotional of all man’s arts. Music could rule my actions - make me lie, cheat, murder, arouse my passion to ungovernable heights - is it weakness to feel so? Or is the composer strong? Yet