I like the word “Adagio”, denoting that the passage ought to be played rather slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. If my life were a music, I have always hoped it would be “adagio molto cantabile e dolce."
Anyway, here are some adagios, or
個人的に気に入った一説を書き留めておく試み。その1。
Salman Rushdie, "Imaginary Homelands" より
"There's a beautiful image in Saul Bellow's latest novel, The Dean's December. The central character, the Dean, Corde, hears a dog barking wildly somewhere. He imagines t