The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.
My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.