By Innovation Shall Hearers Recognize Him [Cowell] 3/9/29

When you go to a concert you anticipate a certain amount of pleasure to be administered in the usual fashion, through familiar mediums. You will register surprise and possibly discontent if the performer applies himself to a strange instrument or uses a queer method of attack. You are quite likely to retain such an artist in your visual memory when all aural recollections have faded into a blur. The same short circuit in association of ideas that suggests the nickname “Darwin” for a pet monkey is responsible for many an aberration in judgment of musical or literary personages. That is why notorious persons spend most of their leisure in repudiating all sorts of sticky legends or reiterating forgotten reasons for remembered actions.