You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
“The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.”
“If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.”