WORLD VOICES

CORONOLOGY
  BY CLAIRE BATEMAN

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Q   The danger of falling in love with the bearer of a quintet crown is that you can never be certain whether it's the actual person you desire or the hovering circlet of tiny instrumentalists in black sitting with impeccable posture on folding chairs and nodding almost imperceptibly to one another as they pass the countermelodies back and forth between them. Ironically, the danger of falling in love with the bearer of a quietness crown is the same, though for precisely the opposite reason.