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Article: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony.(Book Review)
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- April 1, 1984
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Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony, By Lewis Thomas. New York: The Viking Press, 1983. $12.95 (h.b.)
The space usually devoted to a book review would not begin to accommodate even a list of the topics considered in this small book of essays stemming from implications of the present state of the biomedical sciences. An evening devoted to reading the essays straight through will permit one to go early to bed. But probably not early to sleep. In the morning, still tired, one will want to pick the book up again rather than go to work.
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